contribute to something

contribute | American Dictionary

contribute
verb[ I/T ]
us/kənˈtrɪb·jut, -jət/
to help by providing money or support, esp. when other people or conditions are also helping:
[ I ]Tourism contributes substantially to the local economy.
If you contribute something you wrote or created, you allow it to be published or shown with pieces by other people:
[ T ]She soon began to contribute articles to newspapers and magazines.

contribute | Business English

contribute
verb
uk /kənˈtrɪbjuːt, ˈkɒntrɪbjuːt/us
[ I ]
to be one of the reasons why something happens:
contribute to/toward/towards sthAnalysts agree that subprime loans contributed to the recession.
[ I or T ]
to add new plans or ideas, or help make improvements to something so that it becomes more valuable or successful:
Employees are encouraged to contribute at staff meetings.
There are a number of people who have contributed ideas.
contribute to/toward/towards sthIt's best when leaders are clear about how they can best contribute to the overall strategy.
[ I or T ]
to provide money or support to help another person, company, or organization to achieve its goal:
contribute to/toward/towards sthAt present, only 10% of employers contribute towards childcare costs.
contribute sth to/toward/towards sthOver £75 million was contributed to the campaign.

Examples of contribute

contribute
Most of the new players contributing to the growth in organic production must necessarily be conventional farmers converting to organics.
Television contributes to this aural pollution by reducing every kind of music to the same level of a passing moment in the televisual flow.
They conclude that self-management strategies contribute to an increase in learners' self- and contextual knowledge which can assist in reducing anxiety.
Indeed, the wish to avoid such veto power may both contribute to surplus coalitions and to grand coalitions between major parties.
Actually, they appear to the electorate as responsible parties contributing to the governance of the country.
Another resistance that contributes to the horizontal cell receptive field is the coupling resistance between cells.
Only symptoms with significant impact on daily activities contributed as diagnostic criteria.
Early vegetative symptoms, however, may also contribute to the high rates of depression seen later in the course of immune activation.
Lower levels of empathy may contribute to conflict in social interactions and thereby heighten levels of negative emotions experienced by some children.
A maximum likelihood ratio test is used to determine which covariates are significantly different from zero and thereby contributing significantly to overall survivorship.
The resulting variable provides an estimate of the extent to which an individual has contributed to the structural determination of the instrument-specific choices.
This has produced conceptual confusion that has contributed to a lack of structural rigor in the field of study.
For instance, lethals may contribute substantially to inbreeding depression.
On the other hand, there is a substantial amount of phenotypic covariance, and genetic and shared environmental influences contribute substantially to this overlap.
Our models demonstrate that organic agriculture can contribute substantially to a more sustainable system of food production.
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