0 present participle of defray
1 (especially of an organization) to pay the cost of something:
For defraying expenses, union administrators were empowered to levy rates (of taxation on local property valuations).
No provisions exist for payment towards defraying expenses or compensating the donor for loss of wages directly attributable to his/her act of supplying the organ.
The licence payer benefits by defraying the cost over a larger audience, and therefore from the reduced price for individual programmes.
Clause 4 deals with the defraying of expenses, the ordinary provision to defray expenses incurred by the local authorities.
If we should decide to use child benefit as a method of defraying transport costs, that benefit must be increased.
The relative effects of holding off and defraying expenditure will depend on the new map and rates of grant.
Without these provisions, the commission will not be able to function because there will be no means of defraying their expenditure.
It raises between £800 million and £1 billion a year, but none of that goes to defraying the environmental costs of the aviation industry.
