defray

[ US /dɪˈfɹeɪ/ ]
VERB
  1. bear the expenses of
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How To Use defray In A Sentence

  • Because health services are so expensive, the costs are defrayed over many years. The policy questions behind the legal questions
  • The added costs have been defrayed by charging a higher price in each of these foreign markets. Fast Fashion: Zara in India
  • These lady nuns must be of patrician lineage and of fortune enough to defray their expense in the convent, which is of the courtliest origin, for it was founded eight hundred years ago by Alfonso VIII. “to expiate his sins and to gratify his queen,” who probably knew of them. Familiar Spanish Travels
  • I've enough money to defray expenses.
  • He made, in person, a minute examination of four receiver-generals 'offices, in order, with that to guide him, to get a correct idea of the amount derived from imposts and the royal revenues, and of what became of this amount in its passage from collection to employment for the defrayal of the expenses of the state. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5
  • Something she should have thought of years ago to defray the stresses of summer. BAD MEDICINE
  • The PPI covers defrayal of mortgages, credit cards, personal or other loans when people fall ill, injured or unemployed. Archive 2008-06-01
  • Something she should have thought of years ago to defray the stresses of summer. BAD MEDICINE
  • To help defray the cost of this development the club recently launched a private members lottery syndicate over a 12-month period.
  • The side dishes are expensive at The Curry House, perhaps to defray the cost of the liberal use of spices.
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