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Definition of "contributary" [con•trib•u•ta•ry]

  • Contributory (adjective)
  • Tributary; contributing (adjective)

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Use "contributary" in a sentence
  • "I find it a basic evasion of a business cost, and a heavy contributary cause for Inflation."
  • "By abolishing official charity and substituting a non-contributary system of old age pensions, a general system of insurance by the State of all its members against unemployment and invalidism ..."
  • "And if now, in the inevitable reflux, the BNP can do some dirty but needful work contributary to breaking the citadels of the lunatic British nomenklatura, then more power to them."