Defray

What do we mean by defray?

To undertake the payment of (costs or expenses); pay. transitive verb

Wrong-doing. noun

To make compensation to or for; pay for the services or discharge the cost of; pay or pay for.

To satisfy; appease.

To meet or satisfy by payment, or by an equivalent; liquidate; settle; discharge: as, to defray the cost of a voyage, or of a lawsuit; to defray a tavern-bill; the profits will not defray the charges or expenses.

To pay or discharge; to serve in payment of; to provide for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc. transitive verb

To avert or appease, as by paying off; to satisfy. transitive verb

To spend (money). verb

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

To pay for (something). verb

Bear the expenses of verb

To spend (money).

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

To pay for (something).

Words that are spelled similarly to defray:
defray, defrag, deray, delray, defra.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word defray:
expenses, costs, incurred, expense, encampment, tuition, cost, debts, fees, loans, maintaining, salary, fee, bills, payment, expedition, funeral, maintenance, benefits, raising, tax, debt, pay, indians, medical, operating, travel, charge, publication, funding, charges, fund, labor, associated, sale, funds, credit, principal, money, administrative, receiving.

Words that rhyme with defray:
day, away, way, lay, play, bay, say, resume, grey, pay, convey, gray, relay, array, cache, survey, ray, sway, slay, display, dismay, may, stay, delay, holiday, fray, re, gay, cliche, waylay, dossier, buffet, cafe, essay, fiance, gourmet, everyday, allay, leeway, prey, clay, fillet, inlay, decay, k, fey, overlay, melee, gainsay, betray, stray, ok, quay, dna, underway, valet, portray, spray, sobriquet, weigh, entree, soiree, pray, asea, passe, yea, sunday, they, bouquet, protege, okay, yay, jay, astray, lei, latte, halfway, gateway, ballet, heyday, tray, friday, hay, obey, j, bray, anyway, x-ray, disarray, lingerie, railway, nay, mainstay, today, repay, sachet, splay, usa, birthday, vertebrae.

Adjectives that are often used to describe defray:
last.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective defray:
costs, expenses.

Consonant match to defray:
defra, da free, do free.

Words that sound like defray:
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