- (a.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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