Defraying is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEFRAYING in dictionary:

VERB:
• DEFRAY, to pay or settle
• provide money to pay (a cost or expense)

Words related to DEFRAYING

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How to use DEFRAYING in a sentence

• Nell for Rochester, where we made an effort to raise money to aid in defraying the expenses of the voyage, and succeeded in collecting about a hundred dollars.
• I cannot close this communication without an expression of my sincere thanks to those kind friends who rendered me assistance in defraying the expenses of my last Mexican tour.
• She then withdrew from the Bastille eight hundred thousand crowns for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the Court during its progress.
• Appius Claudius is said to have exhausted the Roman treasury in defraying the expenses of its construction.
• The intimation is that, in the course of this and similar adventures, McAllister was defraying his own expenses and those of his Californian companion.
• All income of the Society is devoted to defraying cost of publication and mailing.
• Millions of dollars a day would then be spent in defraying the expenses of what might turn out to be an unsuccessful campaign.
• Congress might fix the sums necessary to be used in defraying public expenses, but the States must raise them.
• The railway also shows a fair return on the capital expenditure, the surplus after defraying all working expenses being L56,000 in 1905-1906 and L76,000 in 1906-1907.
• Subscriptions were entered into, likewise, at all these meetings, and throughout the country, for the purpose of defraying the expenses of defending the prisoners.
• Enormous sums had been abstracted from corporation funds for the purpose of defraying the expenses oL candidates for the boroughs.
• Under the eighth resolution it was intended to replace the L30,000 advanced out of the military chest, to provide the means of defraying colonial expenses.
• Montgomery Floyd defraying the expenditure of both expeditions.
• Dear John, could you please tell me how to play bridge whist, so that when I go to the seashore I will be armed for defraying expenses.
• By direction of the committee, I moved the Senate to add an appropriation for the Military Academy to the bill for defraying civil and diplomatic expenses.
• He was, therefore, naturally anxious not to expend more than was absolutely necessary in defraying his passage.
• The students lodged at inns, or at private houses, defraying out of their own pockets, and in their own way, all charges for board and education.
• All income of the Society it devoted to defraying cost of publication and mailing.

Similar words containing FRAY without suffix ing and without prefix de

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