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Contribution vs Paying - What's the difference?

contribution | paying |

As nouns the difference between contribution and paying

is that contribution is something given or offered that adds to a larger whole while paying is payment.

As a verb paying is

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contribution

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something given or offered that adds to a larger whole.
  • An amount of money given toward something.
  • The act of contributing.

    • paying

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • payment
  • * Philip H. Wicksteed, The Commonsense of Political Economy
    • It brings his payings into close and convenient correspondence with his usings of commodities, and different branches of his expenditure thus become easily comparable.