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# contributor

«contributor» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person who gives money, help or ideas to something…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a contributor, contributors)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person who gives money, help or ideas to something together with others: contributors to the charity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contributor/#m1)

2) A person who writes articles or parts for a book, magazine, website or project. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contributor/#m2)

3) Something that helps cause something: smoking is a major contributor to heart disease. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contributor/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school projects, all group members are contributors; in charity events, contributors give money. In maths problems contributors share costs. In science, cars are a contributor to air pollution. Phrases: a major contributor to, a regular contributor, list of contributors.

### examples

- Every contributor to the class book wrote one page. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contributor/#x1)
- The charity thanked all its contributors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contributor/#x2)
- Twenty contributors gave 5 dollars each, so 100 dollars was raised. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contributor/#x3)
- Cars are a big contributor to air pollution. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contributor/#x4)
- She is a regular contributor to the school newspaper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contributor/#x5)
- (formal) Each contributor shall receive a certificate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contributor/#x6)

### note

Countable. Verb: contribute; noun: contribution. Stress: con-TRIB-ut-or. In maths, the total = number of contributors x amount each (if all give the same).

### In the corpora

- ["Enthusiastic contributor" can mean the pupil shouts out answers without waiting.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/16-school-reports/16/)
- [On a school report, "natural leader" can mean bossy and "enthusiastic contributor" can mean shouts out answers without waiting.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/42-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «contributor» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contributor/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.