Defrays

Too often people come in for their $50,000-100,000 bypass surgery that the hospital absorbs and defrays the cost of by making everyone else and their insurance pay for, when $500-$1000 of doctor visits and medication would have prevented or ameliorated the heart disease. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The select do not always oblige for all sorts of reasons: outward rejection of what is often an enormous social and financial responsibility, migration that defrays the personal ties, or perhaps religious conversion. ❋ Gina Athena Ulysse (2012)

Insurances companies, although regulated more than they wished and what company doesn't want free reign to gouge, absorb nearly 33 million new customers, which immediately defrays the cost for what they will eventually face legally in 2014. ❋ James Campion (2010)

Also, 89% of children adopted from foster care receive a state subsidy that defrays the cost of rearing them. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Also it defrays the age gap, with Obama being 15 years younger or so. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Marginal-cost pricing is a rule that is especially helpful in periods of recession or thin markets, because it helps executives squeeze the most they can out of underutilized, expensive capital equipment, and earn revenue that defrays heavy overhead expenses. ❋ SHLOMO MAITAL (1994)

For this protection on the part of the Dutch, every rajah pays an annual tribute, according to the extent of his territories; the net amount of which, exceeding the sum of 10,000 rix dollars, very nearly if not quite defrays the expenses of the establishment. ❋ Phillip Parker King (N/A)

The double rate is only exacted at offices where the carrier system is in operation, and it appears that at those offices the increase in the tax upon local letters defrays the cost not only of its own collection and delivery, but of the collection and delivery of all other mail matter. ❋ United States. Presidents. (N/A)

The church has its own salaried undertakers, and defrays all funeral expenses. ❋ William Shuler Harris (N/A)

The State defrays the expense of the construction and maintenance of a national road, the departments that of the departmental roads, and the departments and towns that of the parochial roads. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Each resident, of course, carefully defrays his own expenses, and his relations to his fellow residents are not unlike those of a college professor to his colleagues. ❋ Unknown (1910)

In France, a duty of eight per cent. is deducted for the coinage, which not only defrays the expence of it, but affords a small revenue to the government. ❋ Unknown (1909)

The coinage, another institution for facilitating commerce, in many countries, not only defrays its own expence, but affords a small revenue or seignorage to the sovereign. ❋ Unknown (1909)

This combination, indeed, of the irascible and the gullible tempers in the king defrays the plot of a very large number of the _chansons_, in which we see his best knights, and (except that they are as intolerant of injustice as he is prone to it) his most faithful servants, forced into rebellion against him, and almost overwhelmed by his own violence following on the machinations of their and his worst enemies. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

One sees agriculture flourishing, while nature alone defrays almost all the expense. ❋ Mifflin Wistar Gibbs (1885)

The Mission was eventually taken over by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and this Society defrays, with unimportant exceptions, the whole cost of the See. ❋ Unknown (1884)