noncontributory

Examples

• All

• The Society provides certain noncontributory health care and life insurance benefits to retired employees.

  Academic text (1998)

• The Society has a noncontributory defined benefit pension plan (the Plan) covering substantially all of its employees.

  Academic text (2002)

• However, unlike the pension plans of most European countries, which were based on compulsory contributions by those intended to benefit, Australia's pension plan was noncontributory.

  Academic text (1991)

• Due to the lower participation rate in fee-for-service plans, teachers are more likely to be in a noncontributory plan (63 percent of individuals, 33 percent of families), compared with private sector professional workers (42 percent of individuals, 24 percent of families).

  Academic text (1994)

• Many employers offer noncontributory health insurance, where employees do not have to pay premiums.

• The firm implemented a noncontributory retirement plan that allows employees to benefit without any personal contributions.

• In a noncontributory savings scheme, workers are not required to contribute from their salaries.

Synonyms

N

nonmandatory

vsnoncontributory

1 5.5

Something you do not have to do

is about absence of employee payment requirement, not only rule-based optionality

N

nonobligatory

vsnoncontributory

• Formal

1 6.1

Not required by law or rule

is focused on not needing payments from employees rather than general optionality

N

noninstrumental

vsnoncontributory

1 7.7

Not playing an important or deciding role in a result

is used for not playing any part in causing something rather than being a means

N

noncausal

vsnoncontributory

1 8.8

One thing does not make another happen

also covers a separate sense about not needing payments from employees

N

noncausative

vsnoncontributory

• Specialized

9.1

A verb that describes an action happening by itself without someone causing it

is the broader idea about not playing any causal part in events

Antonyms

C

contributory

6 6.3

Helping to cause something or being partly responsible for it

How Contributory

decisive

80 4.0

important

∞ 1.0

contributory

6 6.3

noncontributory

• Specialized

1 7.9

insignificant

102 4.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology