substantive contribution

collocation in English

meaningsofsubstantiveandcontribution

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substantive
adjective
uk
/səbˈstæn.tɪv/us
/səbˈstæn.t̬ɪv/
important, serious, or related to ...
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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 ofsubstantiveandcontributionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsubstantive contribution

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A volume focused upon such typically anthropological issues as kinship, social stratification, economy, ideology, frontier maintenance, and the like would make asubstantivecontribution.
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What a wonderfully intellectual,substantivecontributionto the housing debate that this county sorely needs that is.
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They have not yet made asubstantivecontributionto the debate.
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Growers do not propose practices, nor do they select them from a menu, and they do not make substantive contributions to the management team.
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The volume itself consists of a concise and helpful editor's introduction, followed by four substantive contributions.
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Her recent monograph also deftly culls information from manuscript sources and makes original historiographic as well as substantive contributions.
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Repeatedly encountering misspelled names, missing end notes, and egregious grammatical and punctuation errors distracts from the reader's ability to focus on the substantive contributions of this work.
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Thanks to your cooperative attitude and substantive contributions, today's sitting will allow considerable progress to be made.
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He has made substantive contributions to understanding the relationships between democracy and capitalism.
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More than 800 substantive contributions were received, including comments, e-mails, alternative drafts and references.
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It is intended to cover those who have made substantive contributions to social theory and research, including any sociological subfield.
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This award is presented to faculty who demonstrate substantive contributions in research, teaching, and service.
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Several of the organization's chapters made substantive contributions to the advance of civil rights in 1906.
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Dramatism makes substantive contributions to understanding of human relationships.
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