Definition of "contribution" []

• The act of contributing. (noun)
• Something contributed. (noun)
• A payment exacted for a special purpose; an impost or a levy. (noun)
• An article or other work submitted for publication. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Judge Posner's main contribution is the application of economics to law."
• "Its main contribution is to offer a measure of clarity in three important areas."
• "We usually get tired of turkey and other holiday food by Christmas and end up making a Tex-Mex Christmas, and my contribution is always sour cream enchiladas, although I'm probably blasphemous in that I make them with FLOUR tortillas, ahh, the horror!"