contributory
Meaning of contributory
- playing a part in bringing something about.
smoking may be a contributory cause of the disease
- (of a pension or insurance scheme) operated by means of a fund into which people pay.
contributory benefits
noun
a person liable to give money towards the payment of a wound-up company's debts.
late Middle English (in the sense ‘contributing to a fund’): from medieval Latin contributorius, from Latin contribut- ‘added’ (see contribution).
Information about contributory
- The plural form of contributory is: contributories.
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Hyphenation of contributory
con-trib-u-tory
- It consists of 4 syllables and 12 chars.
- contributory is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
contributory synonyms
Meaning conducive:
conducive, contributing, contributive, tributary
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