lasting contribution

collocation in English

meaningsoflastingandcontribution

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lasting
adjective
uk
/ˈlɑː.stɪŋ/us
/ˈlæs.tɪŋ/
continuing to exist for a long time or ...
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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 oflastingandcontributionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflasting contribution

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Hislastingcontributionis his courage in exploring frontiers not approved by establishment philosophers, looking for "tools" of investigations wherever he could find them.
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It is an important, solidly researched book, further proof, if indeed any were needed, of thelastingcontributionof specialised studies of this nature.
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The release failed to advance any radical new aesthetic nor did it make alastingcontributionto the rap form.
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But despite a strategic personal involvement in the process of negotiation itself, the mostlastingcontribution of the radicals to the reconstruction of the right was an ideological one.
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That is alastingcontributionwhich will go beyond the present time.
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Only if everyone concerned works together in constructive partnership can we make a significant andlastingcontributionto stemming this epidemic.
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It will make alastingcontributionto peace, stability and prosperity across the continent.
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We need to get people off benefits and into work so that they can make alastingcontributionto their communities.
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They need better targeted help for those projects which make an effective andlastingcontributionto local economies.
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This cut cannot make alastingcontributionto long-term saving: it can only aggravate the position.
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If we are to make alastingcontribution—if we are to cure the problem—we must help those countries to help themselves.
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Our aim is to ensure alastingcontributionto competitiveness.
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Aristotle made a far more enduring andlastingcontributionto political analysis ages before.
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Its deliberations and the public debates which have been prompted by its reports have made an invaluable andlastingcontributionto the development of penal policy.
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It is not merely a short-term plan to meet our present situation, for, if successful, it will be alastingcontributionto the health and the happiness of our people.
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He is particularly known for hislastingcontributionto the development of numerical methods in ecology.
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I will discuss here only a few of hislastingcontributionto the field.
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His book can be seen as his mostlastingcontributionto the abolitionist movement.
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He made alastingcontributionto peace and will be greatly missed.
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However, his mostlastingcontributionto the art world came in the following decade as he applied his talent to the world of commercial travel.
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