Meaning of donate in English

donate

verb

/dəʊˈneɪt/ us

/ˈdoʊ.neɪt/

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B2 [ I or T ]

to give money or goods to help a person or organization:

donate something to someone/something An anonymous businesswoman donated one million pounds to the charity.

Please donate generously.

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to give something to someone

giveGive me that dirty plate.
offerYour doctor should be able to offer advice.
provideThis booklet provides useful information about local services.
supplyThe lake supplies the whole town with water.
donateFour hundred dollars has been donated to the school book fund.

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C1 [ T ]

to allow some of your blood or a part of your body to be used for medical purposes:

donate blood The appeal for people to donate blood was very successful.

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to give something to someone

giveGive me that dirty plate.
offerYour doctor should be able to offer advice.
provideThis booklet provides useful information about local services.
supplyThe lake supplies the whole town with water.
donateFour hundred dollars has been donated to the school book fund.

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The Vatican has agreed to donate $80,000 in humanitarian/emergency aid to countries affected by the war.
Ten pence is donated to charity for every bottle sold.
The money was donated by an anonymous benefactor.
Tons of internationally donated food was distributed to the starving peasants.
She donated a sizeable portion of her riches to children's charities.

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Giving, providing and supplying

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(Definition of donate from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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donate

verb [ I/T ]

/ˈdoʊ·neɪt, doʊˈneɪt/

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to give something, esp. to an organization, without wanting anything in exchange:

[ T ] Over $12 million was donated to the building fund.

[ T ] Some businesses have agreed to donate computers to schools.

donation

noun [ C/U ] us

/doʊˈneɪ·ʃən/

[ C ] Donations of food and clothing are gratefully accepted.

(Definition of donate from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

donate | Business English

donate

verb [ I or T ]

/dəʊˈneɪt/ us

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SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

to give something of value such as money or goods to help a person or organization such as a charity:

The bank donates 25 cents for every $100 spent using the card.

donate sth to sb/sth The commission also wants to make it easier for attorneys to donate time to help poor clients.

To encourage people to donate to charity, they provide a list of charities on their website.

(Definition of donate from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of donate

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This space is donated in the interests of high standards in advertisements.

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Also, the unrelated donors we interviewed were generally quite open about acknowledging that they had received money for donating their kidneys.

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That is, those people who have not expressly opposed donating their organs are considered eligible for donation.

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It should be emphasized that money from rates supplemented the considerable sums donated by parishioners or outsiders.

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Most women donating to temples were widows drawing upon wealth inherited from husbands, typically for the latter's spiritual benefit.

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Not in all cases though: it is perfectly conceivable to think that donating a liver lobe is less burdensome whilst alive than once dead.

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Pictures donated to an art exhibition in support of the movement showed mainly allegorical symbols and apocalyptic landscapes.

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Often particular attention was given to the decoration and placing of the pulpit, while elaborate pulpit cloths were bought or donated.

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Rather than keep her profits, however, she donated them all to the hospice that had cared for her beloved husband.

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Yet, in both anonymous and familial donations, many of the reasons for not donating would be the same.

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The characteristic feature of the intra-familial system of mutual aid is the preponderance of donating pensioner families over receiving pensioner families.

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Of immediate consequence to the coastal peoples there are the disruptions to the fishing industry and to the birds who donate their nitrogen-rich guano.

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Exhibitions held at most institutions were largely or entirely made up of objects donated by local private benefactors.

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Respect for the autonomy of donating families compels me to believe that we should protect them by barring them from outcome information.

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They then wrote to local residents encouraging them to become involved in the club movement and to donate money to it.

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in Chinese (Traditional)

捐贈，捐助，捐獻, 獻（血）, 捐獻（器官）…

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