useful contribution

collocation in English

meaningsofusefulandcontribution

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useful
adjective
uk
/ˈjuːs.fəl/
us
/ˈjuːs.fəl/
effective; helping you to do 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 ofusefulandcontributionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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From this perspective, artificial systems can be ausefulcontributionto the understanding of biological findings.
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Ausefulcontributionof the report is the formulation of rational criteria for physical definition of slum areas.
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This in itself is ausefulcontributionto demystifying creativity in design.
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Perhaps the mostusefulcontributionof this book, however, concerns the interplay between national and individual sovereignty.
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This is ausefulcontributionto the biology of cocoa with wider implications for tropical conservation and agroforestry.
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Nevertheless, the book is both lively and thought-provoking, and represents ausefulcontributionto the literature in the subject.
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Overall, the book makes a veryusefulcontributionto contemporary debates about youth crime and anti-social behaviour.
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Nevertheless, the study is a veryusefulcontributionto several debates.
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It is also ausefulcontributionto the field.
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Nevertheless, this book makes ausefulcontributionto historical debates about the causes of the mutinies.
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Here the mostusefulcontributionis to our appreciation of the environmental challenge that farming scientifically in the rainforest represents.
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Overall, this is ausefulcontributionto a much under-researched area.
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Overall, this volume is ausefulcontributionto the maturation of the field.
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This book is certainly a mostusefulcontributionto the use of corpora for compilation of technical terms and their definitions.
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He appears as a man who did not shirk from decisions, making the journal, though stylistically plodding, ausefulcontributionto this period of history.
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The chapter is ausefulcontributionto studies of the relationships between music, national feeling and education.
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This makes the book ausefulcontributionto the theme of this chapter.
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Parts could have been better written, but on the whole ausefulcontributionto the story.
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