major contributor
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmajorandcontributor
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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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contributor
noun[C]
uk/kənˈtrɪb.jə.tər/us/kənˈtrɪb.jə.t̬ɚ/
a person who contributes something, especially money, in order to provide or achieve something together with ...
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(Definition ofmajorandcontributorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Themajorcontributorto that decline was the reduction in systematic risks associated with significant changes in international energy markets.
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Mental health problems are amajorcontributorto the burden of disease across the globe.
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Glacial drift, both as till and fluvial deposits, is amajorcontributorto a variety of both micro- and macro-landforms.
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The fish marketing sector was also amajorcontributorin terms of total industry output.
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We believe that role socialization is amajorcontributorto the maturing-out process observed during early adulthood.
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The possibility that such an environment can be amajorcontributorto motivating children's creative music output is not without precedence.
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Neonatal sepsis is amajorcontributorof morbidity and mortality and is associated with dramatic changes in the activity of macrophages and other reticulo-endothelial cells.
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She also sees increases in women's contraceptive use as amajorcontributorto the emergence of second-wave feminism.
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Many historians have viewed the war as amajorcontributorto the fracture and ultimate collapse of the civil rights movement in the late 1960s.
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She has been amajorcontributorto the literature on state capacity and her analysis has been distinguished by both scholarly rigour and imagination.
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The normalized electron momentum in the z-direction is amajorcontributorto the energy and nearly equals the relativistic factor g.
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The total management costs have become now themajorcontributorto the total costs, while nutrition accounts for the smallest expense.
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Themajorcontributorto these differences was the daily intercepted solar radiation that differed by as much as 30% between sites.
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It is amajorcontributorto poverty.
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There can be no doubt that the use of computer networks and particularly the internet has been amajorcontributorto the establishment of a transnational extreme right subculture.
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Fishbein concluded that his demonstration that "stress-free" mice still showed learning deficits negates stress as amajorcontributorto the deficits.
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The observational advances have in turn spawned developments in theory and models of fault growth, development and interaction, to many of which the author was amajorcontributor.
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What are perceived as autonomic disorders in old age arise from many sources, of which alteration in trophic interactions between target organ and nerve appears to be amajorcontributor.
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However, in some parameter regimes, it may just act as a trigger or a catalyst, and the work done by the background plasma flow becomes themajorcontributor.
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Inpatient hospital care is amajorcontributorto health-care costs, and reducing the average length of stay is considered a key goal for many health systems.
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