contributory
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1. contributory - Noun
2. contributory - Adjective
3. contributory - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Contributing to the same stock or purpose; promoting the same end; bringing assistance to some joint design, or increase to some common stock; contributive.
One who contributes, or is liable to be called upon to contribute, as toward the discharge of a common indebtedness.
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Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.
If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory factors in the loss of their seats.
Love as a force contributory to disease.
Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No.
The most recent scientific evidence is both overwhelming and shocking-what we feed (or don't feed) our children as they grow from birth to early adulthood has a greater total contributory effect on the dietary contribution to cancers than dietary intake over the next fifty years.
[T]he Labour Party stands for a contributory scheme so far as this Bill is concerned. Moreover, we are in favour of a contributory scheme with reference to sickness, whilst we were in favour of a non-contributory scheme in reference to old age pensions.