Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To present as a gift to a fund or cause; contribute.
- intransitive verb Medicine To provide (blood, tissue, or an organ) for transfusion, implantation, or transplant.
- intransitive verb Chemistry To provide (an electron or atom, for example) for combination with an acceptor.
- intransitive verb To make a contribution to a fund or cause.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To give; present as a gift; contribute.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To give; to bestow; to present.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To make a
donation ; togive away something of value to support or contribute towards a cause or for the benefit of another.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb give to a charity or good cause
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The true charity is not in donate some money, but in we donate, donate our time.
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How much you donate is up to you - I personally think a minimum of AUS$5. 00 is reasonable.
Come on a train trip with us! jenphalian 2009
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Will Palin donate a measley $1000 to his campaign or merely ignore him? jack
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Become the CEO of some massively large company and then force that company to never again donate money to political campaigns.
Think Progress » Chuck Todd: ‘The Tea Party gets a big benefit’ from Fox News’ promotion. 2010
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Become the CEO of some massively large company and then force that company to never again donate money to political campaigns.
Think Progress » Chuck Todd: ‘The Tea Party gets a big benefit’ from Fox News’ promotion. 2010
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My offer of signed books for people who donate is still open.
November 17th, 2008 rachelcaine 2008
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Strikingly, however, the proportion of those earning between £12,000 and £20,000 who donate is much greater: 72 per cent.
Archive 2005-01-01 2005
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Strikingly, however, the proportion of those earning between £12,000 and £20,000 who donate is much greater: 72 per cent.
British Philanthropy 2005
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Details: Every time you buy one of Tevolution's delicious teas you can enter the text code behind the label to donate $0.25 to one of four causes.
Joe Waters: The Best Local Cause Marketing of 2011 (and 3 that Really Stunk) Joe Waters 2011
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Mayor-elect Emanuel kept his word to donate $5,000 to charity if the @MayorEmanuel author came forward and met Sinker earlier this month on the set of a Chicago radio show.
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