What does donate mean in English?

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donate Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 to give money or goods to help a person or organization:
- An anonymous businesswoman donated one million dollars to the charity.
- Please donate generously.
- The appeal for people to donate blood was very successful.
1 to give something, esp. to an organization, without wanting anything in exchange:
- [ T ] Over $12 million was donated to the building fund.
- [ T ] Some businesses have agreed to donate computers to schools.
2 to give something of value such as money or goods to help a person or organization such as a charity:
- The bank donates 25 cents for every $100 spent using the card.
- donate sth to sb/sth The commission also wants to make it easier for attorneys to donate time to help poor clients.
- To encourage people to donate to charity, they provide a list of charities on their website.

The Vatican has agreed to donate $80 000 in humanitarian/emergency aid to countries affected by the war.
Ten pence is donated to charity for every bottle sold.
The money was donated by an anonymous benefactor.
Tons of internationally donated food was distributed to the starving peasants.
She donated a sizeable portion of her riches to children's charities.
This space is donated in the interests of high standards in advertisements.
Also, the unrelated donors we interviewed were generally quite open about acknowledging that they had received money for donating their kidneys.
That is, those people who have not expressly opposed donating their organs are considered eligible for donation.