Synonym: affluent, conducive, confluent, contributing, contributive, contributory, feeder. Similar words: distributary, tribute, tribunal, attribute, distribute, contribute, salutary, contributor. Meaning: ['trɪbjətərɪ /-jʊtrɪ] 
n. a branch that flows into the main stream. adj. 1. of a stream; flowing into a larger stream 2. paying tribute 3. tending to bring about; being partly responsible for.
n. a branch that flows into the main stream. adj. 1. of a stream; flowing into a larger stream 2. paying tribute 3. tending to bring about; being partly responsible for. 
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(31) 1896 - Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
(32) Sai Yuen tributary of the named Yu River, originating from the north Funing County Nie mouth.
(33) She lost out to Dilma Rousseff, Lula's chief-of-staff, in a row over environmental licences to build hydroelectric power plants on the Madeira river, the Amazon's longest tributary.
(34) A river, about , 04' km ('50 mi) long, of southwest European U. S. S. R. It is a tributary of the Don River.
(35) In the Ming dynasty, tributary trade constituted the focus of the Sino Japanese relation.
(36) The hydrological data, meteorologic data, initial water quality data, dispatch data of Danjiangkou reservoir and water quality data of tributary inflow during 1995 are used for the simulation.
(37) The Missouri River is the chief tributary of the Mississippi.
(38) Fishermen in the Hafar Canal , a shallow tributary of the Euphrates River.
(39) Constructing tributary - control projects and expanding the flood - discharge capacity of the lower - middle streams of major rivers.
(40) A river, about846 km( 526 mi) long, of southeast Australia flowing generally northwest to a tributary of the Darling River.
(41) Carthage had expected the tributary peoples on Rome's boundaries to join the Carthaginian armies and rise against their masters; they did not.
(42) The area above Chashang Section in the Beishi River Valley, a tributary of Fen River, is made up of forested and unforested lands in one and the other.
(43) North Stone River tributary of the main shops are Situ River.
(44) Slough Creek , a tributary of the Lamar , has six dams.
(45) The Pelly River is a Yukon tributary and site of the territory's first homestead.
(46) It is a strategy not so much for world domination on the model of Western imperialism as for reestablishing China as the Middle Kingdom—the dominant tributary state in the Asia-Pacific region.
(47) The tributary system will be referred to more than once below,(www.Sentencedict.com) and we will also return to the practice of seaborne trade.
(48) A proposed hydroelectric dam on the Madeira river (a tributary of the Amazon) was denounced, and the country's new oil find claimed for its people.
(49) Lake Ontario tributary chinook salmon takes a moment to pose for the camera before this release. Photo by Brian Bradfiled.
(50) Jacques argues that something like the tributary system that existed in the past can be re-created, but that system applied mainly to China's nearer and smaller neighbours.
(51) Fascist in China is a small tributary of this stream.
More similar words: distributary, tribute, tribunal, attribute, distribute, contribute, salutary, contributor, distributed, retribution, attributive, distributor, contribute to, distribution, tribulation, contributing, contribution, moribund, agribusiness, tribe, tribal, dietary, monetary, unitary, diatribe, solitary, military, sanitary, tribesman, sedentary.