major contribution
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmajorandcontribution
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major
adjective
uk/ˈmeɪ.dʒər/us/ˈmeɪ.dʒɚ/
more important, bigger, or more serious than others of the ...
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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 ofmajorandcontributionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmajor contribution
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The result is amajorcontributionto the understanding of ecological-social linkages that is of interest to ecologists, anthropologists, economists, and politicians.
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In that regard, this is amajorcontributionto the limited academic literature on wine.
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These studies with young children have made amajorcontributionto a better understanding of children's response to music.
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Amajorcontributionof the planning-control model is bringing the planning/control distinction, long central to the motor-control literature, into this arena.
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Nonetheless, this book is amajorcontributionand is highly recommended for anyone working or researching with the crop.
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Since approximately half the inbreeding load is due to lethals, this implies amajorcontributionfrom mutational load to the total effect of inbreeding.
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To verify in detail that the order induced by (1) and (2) is wellfounded is amajorcontributionof this article.
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Themajorcontributionduring these eighty or so years was the systematization of the mass of knowledge being accumulated.
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Amajorcontributionof robotics to agent research is the importance of ' 'embodiment' ' and real world dynamics.
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It is amajorcontributionto our knowledge of what happened, who was responsible and why it occurred.
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He credited the elimination of the poll tax as amajorcontributionto this surprising result.
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It also assumes that the payments represent amajorcontributiontowards all the care needs of the older person.
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This is very much a book for the specialist and it is amajorcontributionto the science of astrobiology.
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Amajorcontributionof this paper is to use a richer approach that captures both portfolio balance and general equilibrium effects.
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This publication offers significant, constructive support for teachers, and makes amajorcontributionto the debate about musical ability.
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This has in fact not yet happened, so something more positive must urgently be done and this book makes amajorcontribution.
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Onemajorcontributionfrom these studies is that many mechanisms suggested can be fairly safely ruled out by energetic arguments.
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Themajorcontributionof that paper was that it addressed experiments, for instance plasmid dimerisation.
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This is amajorcontributionto the comparative literature on welfare states.
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