DEFRAY meaning: Provide payment to cover costs

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Definitions from Wiktionary (defray)

▸ verb:  To pay or discharge (a debt, expense etc.); to meet (the cost of something).
▸ verb:  (archaic) To pay for (something).
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To spend (money).

Similar:

fray, absorb, discharge, disburse, deburse, pay down, forgive, defalk, redisburse, acquit, more...

Opposite:

incur

Types:

pay, cover, reimburse, subsidize, offset, contribute, more...

Phrases:

defray counteract, more...

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