contributes

a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose

One who, or that which, contributes

someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money n

anything that contributes causally to a result n

n anything that contributes causally to a result n an abstract part of something n one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer n a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission n any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together n an independent variable in statistics n (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain