From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishput something towards something phrasal verbto use some money in order to pay part of the cost of something Alec put the money towards a trip to Australia. → put→ See Verb table
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put towards • They then celebrated by putting the money towards a dinner-dance.• We could put it towards a new bed head.• Laming claimed he knew nothing about the drugs ring and said Black put up £10,000 towards development of the stun gun.• He put his finger towards one of the clenched fists and found it tightly grasped.• But while Stockton councillors yesterday agreed to put £19,000 towards the costs, cash-strapped Middlesbrough said they could spend no more than £10,000.• By contrast, a cruiser is utterly directed, as Schopenhauer might have put it, towards the extinction of his desire.• A further difficulty is that it would apparently require us to put enormous resources towards trivial increases in length of life. 