Word Meanings - CONTRIBUTIONAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Pertaining to, or furnishing, a contribution.
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- FURNISHMENT
The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel. - CONTRIBUTIONAL
Pertaining to, or furnishing, a contribution. - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - FURNISH
Pr. formir, furmir, fromir, to accomplish, satisfy, fr. OHG. frumjan to further, execute, do, akin to E. frame. See Frame, v. t., and - 1. To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to - FURNISHER
One who supplies or fits out. - CONTRIBUTION PLAN
A plan of distributing surplus by giving to each policy the excess of premiums and interest earned thereon over the expenses of management, cost of insurance, and the policy value at the date of computation. This excess is called the contribution - CONTRIBUTION
An irregular and arbitrary imposition or tax leved on the people of a town or country. These sums, . . . and the forced contributions paid by luckless peasants, enabled him to keep his straggling troops together. Motley. (more info) 1. The act - DISFURNISH
To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest. I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher. Massinger. - REFURNISHMENT
The act of refurnishing, or state of being refurnished. The refurnishment was in a style richer than before. L. Wallace. - UNFURNISH
To strip of furniture; to divest; to strip. - UNDERFURNISH
To supply with less than enough; to furnish insufficiently. Collier. - REFURNISH
To furnish again. - DISFURNISHMENT
The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished. Daniel. - APPERTAIN
To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach