Contributory

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  • adjective. Of, relating to, or involving contribution.
  • adjective. Helping to bring about a result.
  • adjective. Subject to an impost or levy.
  • noun. One that contributes.
  • 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.
  • noun. One who or that which contributes.
  • noun. 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Contributing to the same stock or purpose; promoting the same end; bringing assistance to some joint design, or increase to some common stock; contributive.
  • adjective. negligence by an injured party, which combines with the negligence of the injurer in producing the injury, and which bars recovery when it is the proximate cause of the injury.
  • noun. One who contributes, or is liable to be called upon to contribute, as toward the discharge of a common indebtedness.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Of, pertaining to, or involving a contribution
  • adjective. Tending to contribute to a result
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. tending to bring about; being partly responsible for