Usage Note
Contribuable is gender-neutral in form but takes grammatical agreement: une contribuable honnête. It appears frequently in political and fiscal discourse (les contribuables français). The root is contribuer (to contribute); the related noun is la contribution (tax, contribution).
Examples
"Les contribuables financeront ce nouveau projet."
Natural Translation
Taxpayers will fund this new project.
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