important contribution

collocation in English

meaningsofimportantandcontribution

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important
adjective
uk
/ɪmˈpɔː.tənt/
us
/ɪmˈpɔːr.tənt/
necessary or of ...
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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 ofimportantandcontributionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofimportant contribution

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This shows that recent local transmission makes animportantcontributionto levels of tuberculosis in the city.
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Animportantcontributionof this research is the result of using survival analysis.
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This is animportantcontributionto the discussion in the field of educational linguistics on the nature of academic language proficiency.
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Despite these shortcomings, this is animportantcontribution.
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On balance, the book is animportantcontributionto geropsychology.
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This is animportantcontributionthat might help us to focus, once and for all, on these important issues.
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I suggest that search activity is playing such a unique role in survival partly due to its veryimportantcontributionto the operant selection.
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In such a sweeping andimportantcontribution, there will be many points that need further discussion.
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In fact this paper is about both, and it is animportantcontributionon both counts.
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It is well presented and is animportantcontributionbreaking new ground.
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Placing refugee studies within the emerging globalisation paradigm is perhaps the mostimportantcontributionthis book makes to the literature.
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From the point of view of intellectual and cultural historians, perhaps an even moreimportantcontribution of women's history has been the concept of gender.
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However, local practitioners and services have the potential to make animportantcontributionto improving health in disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
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The secondimportantcontributionof this volume is the distinction it makes between the fraught categories of identity and desire.
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The experiential knowledge of community members was animportantcontributionto designing projects and developing strategies in many instances.
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The organizers of partnerships with this configuration did not speak of intentionally excluding growers, nor did they report them making anyimportantcontribution.
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The mostimportantcontributionof the method is its improvement on the researcher's ability to compute realistic confidence intervals.
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It deserves the welcome which students reserve for a reallyimportantcontributionto literary criticism.
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This is no small feat, and for this reason alone the book constitutes animportantcontributionto the literature on this topic.
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As such, the book represents animportantcontributionto the literature concerned with the relationship between ice sheets and environmental change.
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