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Contributory

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Of, relating to, or involving contribution.

adj. Helping to bring about a result.

adj. Subject to an impost or levy.

n. One that contributes.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Of, pertaining to, or involving a contribution

adj. Tending to contribute to a result

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Contributing to the same stock or purpose; promoting the same end; bringing assistance to some joint design, or increase to some common stock; contributive.

n. One who contributes, or is liable to be called upon to contribute, as toward the discharge of a common indebtedness.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Contributing to the same stock or purpose; promoting the same end; bringing assistance to some joint enterprise, or increase to some common stock.

Paying contribution; tributary; subject.

n. One who or that which contributes.

n. In recent Eng. law, one who, by reason of being or having been a shareholder in a jointstock company, is bound, on the winding up of the company, to contribute toward the payment of its debts.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. tending to bring about; being partly responsible for

Word Usage

"CASARES: However, Alex Sanchez, there is something in civil law called contributory negligence."

Equivalent

causative

Antonym

hindering preventive

Cross Reference

accessory contributory negligence

Form

contributory negligence

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

contributive contributing helpful conducive contributary

Same Context

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