worthwhile contribution

collocation in English

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worthwhile
adjective
uk
/ˌwɜːθˈwaɪl/us
/ˌwɝːθˈwaɪl/
useful, important, or good enough to be a suitable reward for the money or time spent or 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 ofworthwhileandcontributionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Overall a veryworthwhilecontributionto the 'greening' of social policy.
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Facing a growing contemporary interdependence, a review of past links is aworthwhilecontributionto improved mutual understanding.
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If we accept that labeling plays a crucial role in categorization, boundary drawing, and stereotyping, then the study of age labels emerges as aworthwhilecontributionto aging research.
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That said it must be emphasised that this book makes a number of important points and is therefore aworthwhilecontributionto the early history of monasticism.
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The reader is left with the impression that because these scientists were not philosophers they can make noworthwhilecontributionto our understanding of the human condition.
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Child benefit provides aworthwhilecontributiontowards the costs of bringing up children, but it has never been intended to meet those costs in full.
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That would be aworthwhilecontributiontowards closing the trade gap.
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It will certainly make aworthwhilecontributionto road safety.
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Helping deal with that, which irradiation does, undoubtedly makes a veryworthwhilecontributionto the reduction of food-borne illness.
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It is not aworthwhilecontributionto their position to impose a further set of requirements regarding the passing on of information.
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This report could make aworthwhilecontributionto that effect.
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We also want to give women a chance to return to work and to make aworthwhilecontribution.
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It is only by ensuring domestic peace and harmony that any nation can be strong enough to make aworthwhilecontributionto world harmony.
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Child benefit continues to provide aworthwhilecontributionfor all families towards the cost of bringing up children.
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The scheme would provide a mostworthwhilecontributionto resources.
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They will be selected to make aworthwhilecontributionto the work of the team.
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I hope to make an equallyworthwhilecontributionto the debate and, perhaps, to touch upon some of the points that he raised.
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The increase in quotas will make aworthwhilecontributiontowards the financing of deficits.
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Its recovery and use on sewage works is making a useful andworthwhilecontributionto energy conservation.
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On the whole, this report is a fairlyworthwhilecontributionto the debate on the role of agriculture in food supply.
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