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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of defray.

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Examples

  • It is not without a certain degree of romantic pride that I look back and know that the first expenses of my son's life were defrayed from the price of that first creation of my brain; and before that child was two years old, I had procured for my husband, – (for the husband who has lately overwhelmed me, my sons, and his dead patron with slander, rather than yield a miserable annuity) – a place worth a thousand a year; the arduous duty of which consisted in attending three days in the week, for five hours, to hear causes tried in the simplest forms of law.

    English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century 1854

  • The Unemployment stats will not turn around inside a time-frame of the current administration, as rehires will be defrayed by elimination of Underemployment -- this means an additional five hours per average workweek, Workweek stats overreport actual hours worked: claiming in excess of 43 hours, when there is a actual Workweek of only about 37 hours.

    Meltzer on the Labor Market, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • He and his wife Susan “went to Australia … and toured there, but a great deal of the initial cost of getting there and back was defrayed by Clarion South, who wanted me to teach, so I guess that was work-related, or at least SF-related.”

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2009 » April 2009

  • All of whom, we imagine, defrayed the costs of making an over-the-top music video with lots of pyrotechnic effects.

    Britney Spears debuts 'Hold It Against Me' video/infomercial 2011

  • Because health services are so expensive, the costs are defrayed over many years.

    The policy questions behind the legal questions Ezra Klein 2011

  • Under the new bill, those costs would be defrayed through a mix of federal funds and hefty discounts shouldered by the pharmaceutical industry.

    For Drug Makers, Closing Doughnut Hole Promises Silver Lining Jared A. Favole 2010

  • The added costs have been defrayed by charging a higher price in each of these foreign markets.

    Fast Fashion: Zara in India 2010

  • The added costs have been defrayed by charging a higher price in each of these foreign markets.

    Fast Fashion: Zara In India 2010

  • Under the new bill, those costs would be defrayed through a mix of federal funds and hefty discounts shouldered by the pharmaceutical industry.

    For Drug Makers, Closing Doughnut Hole Promises Silver Lining Jared A. Favole 2010

  • Under the new bill, those costs would be defrayed through a mix of federal funds and hefty discounts shouldered by the pharmaceutical industry.

    For Drug Makers, Closing Doughnut Hole Promises Silver Lining Jared A. Favole 2010

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