0 (especially of an organization) to pay the cost of something: --
1 to pay or provide all or part of the money for costs or expenses: --
defray costs/expenses A temporary tax rebate was available to help multinational corporations defray their business costs.
That is not an insubstantial amount; it could be used to defray the rising cost of dental treatment or eye tests, for instance.
The second item in the purpose of the loan is the making of loans to planters or other persons to defray their expenditure.
Many schools now hire inexperienced junior faculty at low pay, impose burdensome teaching loads, recruit ill-prepared nonethicists to help teach, and depend on research grants to defray ethics teaching costs.
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 gold had probably been received from somewhere as an offering to the palace (), which in turn used it to defray the costs of the enthronement ceremony.
One such reform is a voucher system, which gives money to qualifying parents to defray the costs of private school tuition or to send their children to other public schools.
Oddly enough, the opinions of cellular phone owners have not been heard, although it is they who defray the expenses of the copyright owners, operators and advertisers.
Evaluation is seen as a central component of a resultant new regime of scrutiny, which defrays political responsibility and replaces it with the 'virtuous circle of evaluation, evidence, performance'.
