Contribute
To give or grant i common with others; to give to a common stock or for a common purpose; to furnish or suply in part; to give (money or other aid) for a specified object; as, to contribute food or fuel for the poor.
To give a part to a common stock; to lend assistance or aid, or give something, to a common purpose; to have a share in any act or effect.
To give or use one's power or influence for any object; to assist.
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Contribute Quotations
It's not about charisma and personality, it's about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.
Steve Jobs
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Tony Robbins
What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.
William Glasser
The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.
Thomas Malthus
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.
Albert Ellis
I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.
Walter Annenberg
There is a resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe. The policies of the Bush administration and the Sharon administration contribute to that. It's not specifically anti-Semitism, but it does manifest itself in anti-Semitism as well.
George Soros
This is a ridiculous heat wave we're in right now, and to contribute, Newt Gingrich said that for the entire month of June, he will stop blowing hot air.
Bill Maher
You're always frustrated, you don't have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones.
Bill Wyman
Contribute Translations
contribute in Danish is bidrage
contribute in Dutch is bijdragen
contribute in Finnish is maksaa osansa
contribute in French is contribuent, contribuons, contribuez, contribuer
contribute in German is beitragen
contribute in Latin is adfero affero
contribute in Norwegian is bidra
contribute in Portuguese is contribua
contribute in Spanish is contribuir
contribute in Swedish is medverka, bidra
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