Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To undertake the payment of (costs or expenses); pay.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Wrong-doing.
- To make compensation to or for; pay for the services or discharge the cost of; pay or pay for.
- To satisfy; appease.
- To meet or satisfy by payment, or by an equivalent; liquidate; settle; discharge: as, to
defray the cost of a voyage, or of a lawsuit; to defray a tavern-bill; the profits will not defray the charges or expenses.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To pay or discharge; to serve in payment of; to provide for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc.
- transitive verb obsolete To avert or appease, as by paying off; to satisfy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
spend (money). - verb To
pay ordischarge (a debt, expense etc.); tomeet (the cost of something). - verb To
pay for (something).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb bear the expenses of
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Is there anything people can do to kind of defray those costs?
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But lobbyists and desperate legislators alike have modified the TIF concept over the years, so some TIFs benefit the builder, not the infrastructure generally, and serve as a subsidy for infill developers to defray their own costs of construction by deferring tax payable from assessment growth rather than redirecting it.
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Sometimes they will ask for a little money to help them defray the costs involved with conducting the ceremony, fires need fuel and stuff like that.
Tachih Nádáh 2009
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Sometimes they will ask for a little money to help them defray the costs involved with conducting the ceremony, fires need fuel and stuff like that.
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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Here is a free emissions permit which you can now use to defray the costs of your pollution by either keeping or selling at a premium to a less politically connected power company.
Archive 2009-05-01 Ilya 2009
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UPS bought its natural-gas trucks only after getting $4 million in federal stimulus money to help defray the cost, Mr. Britt said.
Natural-Gas Trucks Face Long Haul Jeffrey Ball 2011
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The suit said insurers have been subje ct to "assessments to defray operating expenses" of the insurance department since 1940, under state law.
Insurers Group Challenges 'Improper' Assessments Leslie Scism 2011
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It results in us collecting the most money possible from other countries to help defray the fixed costs of drug development.
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Often, buyers of these natural-gas trucks have received government subsidies that have helped defray the higher purchase price.
Natural-Gas Trucks Face Long Haul Jeffrey Ball 2011
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Here is a free emissions permit which you can now use to defray the costs of your pollution by either keeping or selling at a premium to a less politically connected power company.
Cap and Trade= Carbon Tax + Corporate Welfare part 1 million and five xtra 2009
karthik.sukumar.399 commented on the word defray
Do companies defray for PhD studies?
September 24, 2012