generous contribution

collocation in English

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generous
adjective
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/ˈdʒen.ər.əs/us
/ˈdʒen.ər.əs/
willing to give money, help, kindness, etc., especially more than is usual ...
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contribution
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌkɒn.trɪˈbjuː.ʃən/us
/ˌkɑːn.trɪˈbjuː.ʃən/
something that you contribute or do to help produce or achieve something together with other people, or to help make ...
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(Definition ofgenerousandcontributionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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I am grateful for thisgenerouscontributionwhich has allowed these improvements to be made earlier than would otherwise have been possible.
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He says that he has made agenerouscontributiontowards defence, and we welcome that gesture.
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To require endowments is mean-spirited and denies thegenerouscontributionthat local congregations have made over centuries in providing churchyards for the local community.
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That is not a verygenerouscontributionto the losses sustained.
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Miners in most of the counties are making agenerouscontributionfrom their tax-free concessionary coal to old-age pensioners' pools.
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I think that it is a verygenerouscontribution.
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We had it in mind that for many employees that was a substantial figure and would represent agenerouscontributionto charity.
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That was agenerouscontributionto the problems of that troubled continent.
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That is a mostgenerouscontribution, and will greatly contribute to solving that terrible problem.
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I am confident that the international community will want to make agenerouscontributionto this settlement.
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What ever else you may think of it, it is agenerouscontributionon the part of that company.
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We should recognise that it already requires agenerouscontributionby employers of resources, time and experience.
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Perhaps he was quiet, but he made agenerouscontributionto the service of his fellow men.
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That is a fairlygenerouscontributionby car users to the state's financial requirements.
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Within a mile radius of the proposed land for this cemetery, there are no fewer than 500 acres of open space—surely a verygenerouscontribution.
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They are paid regardless of the owner's means and are agenerouscontributiontowards the cost of improving old houses.
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Will he not see whether a little moregenerouscontributioncould not be made by this country?
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I wish the generous testimony that has been paid to their devotion could be accompanied by some moregenerouscontributionto their financial difficulties.
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Indeed, we have made agenerouscontributionin supporting its financial programme.
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It is a mostgenerouscontributionto our needs.
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