contributors
- 1Plural of contributor.
The encyclopedia credits thousands of volunteer contributors on its acknowledgments page.
Major contributors to the campaign were invited to a private reception.
Note
A regular plural, formed with -s, that carries every meaning of the singular: donors to a charity, backers of a cause, writers whose articles a publication runs, and people instrumental in building something. That last meaning stretches to things as well, so causes can count as contributors too, as when several factors are named as contributors to a decline. The usual partner is to: contributors to the fund, the magazine, the project.
contributors is a form of contributor
contributor, noun: A person or thing that plays a key part in the creation or growth of something. Full entry
- Forms
- contributorcontributors plural
- Spelling
- contributor → contributors: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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