Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to contribute; contributing; having the power or quality of giving a portion of aid or influence; furnishing a joint part or share.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Contributing, or tending to contribute.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Tending to
contribute ; making acontribution
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective tending to bring about; being partly responsible for
Etymologies
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Examples
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Further, this monetary spoilage has been aggravated by the deployment of money as a weapon of domination instead of a tool of contributive justice and liberty.
Matthew Yglesias » Accounting Identities and Straussian Economics 2009
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Stop suggesting that there are contributive reasons for the rape of a woman, other than the sole responsibility of the man/men who commit the rape.
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Maybe I am being nostalgic but I remember this site as being one with a more positive contributive environment at one time, while there are still elements of that the balance has shifted.
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I know times are tough, but jumping at this brass ring without negotiating with the Wrights to make the space more contributive to the overall culture of the city (and therefore more in line with the overall theme of the Center) seems short-sighted and bound to bite us in the civic ass before too long.
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Like I said, it may be a contributive factor or a symptom to another clinical or personality disorder, but sexual and/or gender variances are not to be put in Axis I or Axis II on the multiaxial board of diagnosis.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Light at the End of the DADT Tunnel 2010
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Like I said, it may be a contributive factor or a symptom to another clinical or personality disorder, but sexual and/or gender variances are not to be put in Axis I or Axis II on the multiaxial board of diagnosis.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Light at the End of the DADT Tunnel 2010
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These postcards are to remind you of our day together, to remind you we will always be in communication, no matter the distance, to remind you that you raised a happy, healthy, contributive person, to remind you that I will visit you, to remind you that I love you!
Open Letter to Scientology: Why can my daughter not visit me? 2008
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Maybe I am being nostalgic but I remember this site as being one with a more positive contributive environment at one time, while there are still elements of that the balance has shifted.
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A misguided author who cries foul every time he or she hears that a scholar or critic has interpreted a work contrary to his or her opinion is betraying literature in the same way, I would argue, as an ill-advised scholar who argues that art with popular or mass appeal cannot be intellectually contributive.
A Day in the Life of a Literature Professor, or Why I Do What I Do 2009
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By identifying that cost and working on reducing it we will then be able to reap the generations' worth of future rewards that we believe typically come once a group becomes more assimilated into and contributive toward evolving American values.
Why Are the Neurotic Anti-Market?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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