Synonyms:
contribution, part, share
Meaning: the part played by a person in bringing about a result; "I am proud of my contribution in advancing the project"; "they all did their share of the work"
Synonyms:
contribution, donation
Meaning: a voluntary gift (as of money or service or ideas) made to some worthwhile cause
Synonyms:
contribution, donation
Meaning: act of giving in common with others for a common purpose especially to a charity
Synonyms:
contribution
Meaning: an amount of money contributed; "he expected his contribution to be repaid with interest"
Usage examples
These investigations may not prove to be much of a contribution to modern science or economics.
Edison made another notable contribution to multiplex telegraphy some years later in the Phonoplex.
So I guess I've no contribution to make to quieting Sir Walter Bullivant's mind, except that he's dead right.
This speaking of small gifts reminds me to say that very few Tuskegee graduates fail to send us an annual contribution.
This barrel of nails is my whole fortune, which I wish to give as my contribution towards the bride's house furnishing.'
Thus it is that Peter's contribution to our Bible has become one of the strongest witnesses to the truth of the words written down in the Gospels.
At night the day's contribution of detraction, innuendo and malicious conjecture would be canvassed in her mind, and then she would drift into a course of thinking.
In this age of the arduous pursuit of peace, prosperity and pleasure, the smallest contribution to the gaiety, if not to the wisdom, of nations can scarcely be unwelcome.
"Efficiency of labor" is thought of in the narrower sense as the part of the product that is logically attributable to labor,--the laborer's contribution to the value of the product,--as apart from rent, the part attributable to material resources.
At her aunt's suggestion she had made it her special duty to collect flowers and plants for the flower table, and armed with notes of introduction from Mrs. Barlow she had gone to many a supposedly close person to ask for some small contribution to the flower table.