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
Usage examples
The Donation.
"Exactly: if the donation were made in a certain form he would refuse it."
It was by far the largest single donation which up to that time the school had ever received.
Colbert resumed his place at Mazarin's pillow at the first interval of pain, and persuaded him to dictate a donation thus conceived.
Grandma was pleased that I was invited, and declared that she would send a liberal donation of milk and cheese as a mark of appreciation.
"Yes," said the king, replying pointedly to the superintendent of finances, "yes, at the point of death, monsieur le cardinal makes me a donation of all his wealth."
And while he continues to persevere in disavowing his marriage with Miss Evelyn, she shall never, at the expense of her mother's honour, receive a part of her right as the donation of his bounty.
Whilst burning-hot napkins, physic, revulsives, and Guenaud, who was recalled, were performing their functions with increased activity, Colbert, holding his great head in both his hands, to compress within it the fever of the projects engendered by the brain, was meditating the tenor of the donation he would make Mazarin write, at the first hour of respite his disease should afford him.