direct contribution

collocation in English

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direct
adjective
uk
/daɪˈrekt/us
/daɪˈrekt/
going in a straight line towards somewhere or someone without stopping 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 ofdirectandcontributionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The nationalized sector embraced only 20 per cent of the whole economy, but more importantly it made littledirectcontributionto exports.
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The depolarizing potential sometimes observed during strychnine application made nodirectcontributionto this measure of hyperpolarization.
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However, other evidence suggests that syntactic awareness may also facilitate reading development via a moredirectcontributionto word recognition.
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A final account of thedirectcontributionof local government sanitary investment to patterns of mortality decline awaits its completion.
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It is, therefore, quite likely that further longitudinal work using younger children will provide stronger evidence of adirectcontributionof phonological memory capacity to vocabulary acquisition.
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Kirk's work can be said to make adirectcontributionto intellectual history on many fronts.
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Increased productivity in the service industries makes adirectcontributionto the greater efficiency of the nation and to the better standards of the people.
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Possibly it may have been adirectcontributionmade by the husband.
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All but a small proportion have been men and women who could make adirectcontributionto our national economy.
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Although it may bring employment, so much public expenditure does not of itself make adirectcontributionto exports.
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The longer working week to which both sides of the industry have agreed does constitute adirectcontributionto the war effort.
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But their importance cannot be gauged solely from theirdirectcontributionto national output.
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Yet you do not ask for adirectcontributionfrom the employer in respect of them.
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This is adirectcontributionthat can be made.
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It is important in regard to its owndirectcontributionto economic activity and to employment.
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It is important to remember that parents can often make a substantialdirectcontributionto the education of their children.
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It is therefore quite proper that we now look to those who are beneficiaries of higher education to make adirectcontribution.
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There are still a few people who doubt their use, and particularly the value of theirdirectcontributionto the problems of management.
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It is entirely fair that every adult should make adirectcontributionto the cost of local services, from which all of us benefit.
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I think the colliery problem can make adirectcontribution, and at no great cost, to agriculture.
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