CHIP IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chip in mean? 

• CHIP IN (verb)
  The verb CHIP IN has 1 sense:

1. contribute to some cause

  Familiarity information: CHIP IN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHIP IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Contribute to some cause

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

chip in; contribute; give; kick in

Context example:

I gave at the office

Hypernyms (to "chip in" is one way to...):

give (transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "chip in"):

combine (add together from different sources)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

 Context examples 

The magnified fluorescent images were then recorded by the sensor chip in the cell phone.

(Smartphone microscope detects nanoparticles and viruses, NIH)