Defray
[dɪ'freɪ] or [dɪ'fre]
Definition
(v. t.) To pay or discharge; to serve in payment of; to provide for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc.
(v. t.) To avert or appease, as by paying off; to satisfy; as, to defray wrath.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Pay, discharge, settle, bear.
Editor: Stacy
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Meet, liquidate, pay, settle, bear, discharge, quit
ANT:Dishonor, repudiate, dissatisfy, misappropriate, embezzle
Typist: Pierce
Definition
v.t. to discharge the expenses of anything: to pay: (Spens.) to appease:—pr.p. defray′ing; pa.p. defrayed′.—ns. Defray′ment Defray′al.
Typist: Preston
Examples
- As to reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which suits you best. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- A favorable report having been made by that body, the Board of Ordnance and Fortification recommended a grant of fifty thousand dollars to defray the expen ses of further research. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In these circumstances, the rent of a great landed estate might, upon ordinary occasions, very well defray all the necessary expenses of government. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I am prepared to defray all charges. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The work was continued during the following twenty years, the English government contributing about $85,000 to defray its cost. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It is natural, indeed, to suppose, that so great an annual expense must have been defrayed from a great annual produce. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The revenues from the province of Asia defrayed the expenses of the Roman state. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There is no impropriety, therefore, in its being defrayed by the general contribution of the whole society. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The rent of a very moderate landed estate might be fully sufficient for defraying all the other necessary expenses of government. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The institutions for the education of the youth may, in the same manner, furnish a revenue sufficient for defraying their own expense. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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