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Defray

//dɪˈfɹeɪ// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To pay or discharge (a debt, expense etc.); to meet (the cost of something). transitive

    "The expenses of the war, while in progress, were defrayed by executing rich men and confiscating their property."

  2. 2
    bear the expenses of wordnet
  3. 3
    To pay for (something). archaic, transitive
  4. 4
    To spend (money). obsolete, transitive

Etymology

From Middle French desfrayer, French défrayer, from dé- + Old French fraier (“to spend”).

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