Thesaurus: contributory

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1. 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.
2. n. One who contributes, or is liable to be called upon to contribute, as toward the discharge of a common indebtedness.
3. adj. tending to bring about; being partly responsible for
4. Contributing to the same stock or purpose; promoting the same end; bringing assistance to some joint design, or increase to some common stock; contributive. Milton. Bonfires of contributory wood. Chapman. Contributory negligence (Law), 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. Wharton. One who contributes, or is liable to be called upon to contribute, as toward the discharge of a common indebtedness. Abbott.
5. Contributing to the same stock or purpose; promoting the sameend; bringing assistance to some joint design, or increase to somecommon stock; contributive. Milton.Bonfires of contributory wood. Chapman.Contributory negligence (Law), negligence by an injured party, whichcombines with the negligence of the injurer in producing the injury,and which bars recovery when it is the proximate cause of the injury.Wharton.
6. j:100 s tending to bring about; being partly responsible for