contribution
C2CEFR level
60/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
A tortfeasor's right to recover from others liable for the same damage a just share of what has been paid.
After settling the claim in full, the manufacturer sought contribution from the negligent installer.
Business noun
The surplus of sales revenue over variable costs, available to cover fixed costs and profit.
Once we stripped out variable costs, each unit's contribution was barely enough to cover the factory's fixed overheads.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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