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Individual Contributor 

It is the arch-nemesis of the manager. The Individual Contributor (IC) is a non-management member of a business team that actually contributes to the goals and mission of the company. An IC typically talks normal, unlike management ablaze with buzz words/phrases like: synergy, low hanging fruit, things of that nature, etc.
"Who's gonna do this work today?"

"Not me, I'm a manager. It it up to my Individual Contributors to help us meet our goals this week."
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Cuntribution 

The act of finding females to hang out to avoid a sausage fest.
Chris' getting 5 girls to hang out tonight. His cuntribution level is way high.
Cuntribution by Aelfric February 17, 2009

Top Contributor 

A Top Contributor on Yahoo Answersis a person who is particularly knowledgeable in up to three sections on the answers website. The specific formula is not known, but one can become a Top Contributor by doing the following:

*~Getting a lot of best answers for the category
*~Keeping questions to a minimum
*~if a question is asked, choosing the Best Answer yourself, as opposed to going letting it be decided by vote
*~Reliably reporting abuse
*~voting for best answers on unresolved questions

Top contributors are identified by the bright orange badge underneath the avatars of users. They are reviewed weekly, and if you do not maintain the previous level of contribution, you can lose top contributor status.
OMG! I just got a Top Contributor badge this week! I hope it doesn't make me the target of abuse from report trolls. But it is worth the bragging rights!

War of Contrition 

As opposed to a war of attrition, wherein two or more parties wear each other down over a period of time, a war of contrition is a situation where two or more parties won't stop apologising to each other.

Usually this happens because everyone is eager to avoid confrontation but if often leads to further disagreement.
Motorist #1: Oh, God - I scraped your door with my bumper! Let me pay for that...
Motorist #2: No, no, it's my fault, I shouldn't have parked there.
Motorist #1: Well that's hardly fair, I should have been looking where I was going.
Motorist #2: Look, there's no need to get upset, I've said it's my fault, and I'll deal with it.
Motorist #1: Mate, this was clearly my doing. Let me pay for it.
Motorist #2: Listen here - it's my car, I parked it badly on this corner, I accept full responsibility!
Motorist #1: FINE THEN! *rips wing mirrors off motorist #2's car*
Eyewitness: That was a real war of contrition right there.
War of Contrition by FrankyBabes January 10, 2010

Contributions from Viewers like You 

Passive aggressive way PBS asks for donations.
PBS: and contributions from viewers like you. Thank You.

Viewers like you: better go contribute now, I guess.

chrontribution 

Used to describe a person's contribution of marijuana to a smoking session involving several people.
"We're rolling a joint. Care to make a chrontribution?"
OR
We are gonna need some seriously hefty chrontributions if we want to roll a superblunt.
chrontribution by B_T November 26, 2010

contrition 

Grief of heart for sin.
His everpresent contrition formed his original opinion.
contrition by Larstait November 14, 2003