0 past simple and past participle of defray
1 (especially of an organization) to pay the cost of something:
The expenses of visiting committees are to be defrayed by the local authorities within the county or borough within whose area they operate.
The cost of £2,750,000 was defrayed out of the profits made and a certain residue in hand.
He and his colleagues have more than once referred to the way in which the costs can be defrayed.
His expenses in so doing are, under present arrangements, defrayed out of the fund.
The expenses of the council should be modest and will be defrayed from the fund.
If it is defrayed out of the rates, it is reasonable that that should make it unnecessary for any further contribution to be given.
The term "economies" does not quite represent the source from which this expenditure has been defrayed.
Expenditure by local education authorities upon the building of elementary schools is, as a rule, defrayed from loans.
