Definition of Contribute

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Contribute

To give or grant i common with others; to give to a common stock or for a common purpose; to furnish or suply in part; to give (money or other aid) for a specified object; as, to contribute food or fuel for the poor.

To give a part to a common stock; to lend assistance or aid, or give something, to a common purpose; to have a share in any act or effect.

To give or use one's power or influence for any object; to assist.

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Contribute Quotations

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Tony Robbins

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.
William Glasser

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.
Albert Ellis

This is a ridiculous heat wave we're in right now, and to contribute, Newt Gingrich said that for the entire month of June, he will stop blowing hot air.
Bill Maher

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
Orson Welles

Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
Indira Gandhi

Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.
Bertolt Brecht

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.
Charles Horton Cooley

We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
Jose Marti

I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations.
Maurice Strong

Contribute Translations

contribute in Danish is bidrage
contribute in Dutch is bijdragen
contribute in Finnish is maksaa osansa
contribute in French is contribuent, contribuons, contribuez, contribuer
contribute in German is beitragen
contribute in Latin is adfero affero
contribute in Norwegian is bidra
contribute in Portuguese is contribua
contribute in Spanish is contribuir
contribute in Swedish is medverka, bidra

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