contributes
Meaning of contributes
verb, 3rd person present
- give (something, especially money) in order to help achieve or provide something.
taxpayers had contributed £141.8 million towards the cost of local services
he contributed to a private pension
mid 16th century: from Latin contribut- ‘brought together, added’, from the verb contribuere, from con- ‘with’ + tribuere ‘bestow’.
Information about contributes
- It is a verb.
- The singular form of contributes is: contribute.
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Hyphenation of contributes
con-trib-utes
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- contributes is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
contributes synonyms
Meaning freely transfer the possession of (something) to (someone):
Meaning give (money or goods) for a good cause, for example to a charity:
Meaning arrange to receive something, typically a publication, regularly by paying in advance:
Meaning agree to give or allow (something requested) to:
Meaning confer or present (an honour, right, or gift):
Meaning in a particular place:
Meaning present (someone) with a gift or gifts:
Meaning give or grant someone (power, status, or recognition):
Meaning make available for use; supply:
Meaning make (something needed or wanted) available to someone; provide:
Meaning provide (a house or room) with furniture and fittings:
Meaning bestow (a quality):
Meaning contribute or add (a quality) to:
Meaning join (something) to something else so as to increase the size, number, or amount:
Meaning grant (a title, degree, benefit, or right):
Words that rhyme with contributes
Utes, utes, Nautes, cyphonautes, nouveautes, vautes, Butes, arbutes, attributes, butes, deattributes, distributes, distritbutes, misattributes, reattributes, redistributes, retributes, tributes, Mendocutes, Mendosicutes, Mollicutes, Tenericutes, acutes, circumlocutes, cutes, electrocutes, elocutes, executes, persecutes, prosecutes, scutes, subcutes, Nyctereutes, Olethreutes, Tolypeutes, nyctereutes, tolypeutes, confutes, refutes, Deschutes, chutes, parachutes, shutes, Gosiutes, Paiutes, Piutes, Jutes, jutes, Wahpekutes, absolutes
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