How to say "contributor" in Japanese

• 提供者ていきょうしゃCommon
  nounThe common, general word for a person or party that provides or supplies something: a donor, or a provider of information, services, or funds. It stresses supplying rather than writing.
• 寄稿者きこうしゃ
  nounCovers 'contributor' in the publishing sense: a writer who contributes an article to a magazine, newspaper, or similar outlet. Use it for the person behind a contributed piece, not for posters or donors.
• 出金者しゅっきんしゃ
  nounNarrowly financial: a person who puts up or contributes money, shading into 'investor' or 'financier'. It fits a backer funding a venture, and is seldom the word for contributors of writing or content.
• 投稿者とうこうしゃ
  nounA person who posts or submits content: use it for a contributor to a website or forum, or a submitter of an entry or manuscript. The emphasis is on posting or sending in.
• 投書家とうしょか
  nounA person who writes in to a newspaper: a contributor of reader letters, close to 'correspondent'. It is really about newspaper letter writers, not contributors in general.

Choose by what is contributed: 提供者 is the broad, common word for a provider or donor, 寄稿者 writes articles, 投稿者 posts or submits content, 出金者 supplies money, and 投書家 writes in to newspapers.

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• 提供者ていきょうしゃdonor
• 寄稿者きこうしゃcontributor (of articles)
• 出金者しゅっきんしゃcontributor
• 投稿者とうこうしゃcontributor
• 投書家とうしょかcontributor (e.g. to a newspaper)
• 寄稿家きこうかcontributor (of articles)
• 貢献者こうけんしゃcontributor
• 寄贈者きぞうしゃdonor
• 執筆者しっぴつしゃwriter
• 献納者けんのうしゃdonor