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📖 Определения и значения для слова contributory

📒 helping to cause something

  • Alcohol is a contributory factor in 10 per cent of all road accidents.
  • Smoking is a contributory cause of many diseases.
  • (British English) He was found guilty of contributory negligence (= that helped to cause an accident).

📒 involving payments from the people who will benefit

  • a contributory pension scheme/plan (= paid for by both employers and employees)
  • contributory benefits (= ones that you make payments for)
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