0 past simple and past participle of contribute
1 to give something, especially money, in order to provide or achieve something together with other people:
The company publicly apologized and agreed to contribute some money to charity.
It was a real team effort - everyone contributed something to the success of the project.
Tourism contributes millions of pounds to the country's economy.
Everyone in the office is contributing money for his leaving present.
We have contributed all our working lives to pension schemes and national insurance, expecting a reasonable state pension on retirement.
But the issues identified by the editors, while interesting and important, are not always ones that play large roles in the contributed papers.
This has produced conceptual confusion that has contributed to a lack of structural rigor in the field of study.
Therefore, there is solid ground for suggesting that metalinguistic knowledge contributed substantially to the pattern of accuracy observed on the two error-correction tasks.
