Defray is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEFRAY in dictionary:

VERB:
• to pay or settle
• provide money to pay (a cost or expense)
• provide money for (costs or expenses)
• To pay or discharge; to serve in payment of; to provide for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc.
• To avert or appease, as by paying off; to satisfy; as, to defray wrath.
• bear the expenses of

Words related to DEFRAY

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Words that contain DEFRAY

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How to use DEFRAY in a sentence

• Owing to this, we were constrained to expend in presents, a large portion of what had been bestowed upon us by well disposed persons to defray our expences.
• In this way we need fear no dangers of the sea, or the mercy of sailors, and the price of freight would defray the expences by land.
• Money was sent at the same time to defray the expenses of such care.
• As our experiments had caused us considerable expense, we made a charge to those who sat for us to defray this expense.
• However, he was not daunted, but in some way he procured the means to defray his expenses, perhaps from his good brother Sidney, for the next letter to Mr.
• Besides the money which Miss Grant had given him to defray his expenses, he had with him ten dollars of his own.
• It has also offered to defray a considerable part of the cost of erecting the necessary buildings.
• To do this will require an expense to defray which the ordinary salaries of the governor and secretary of that Territory appear to be incompetent.
• Yet in Iuly and August some was taken, but not sufficient to defray so great a charge as our stay required.
• When her sister married Jimmie, she would, of course, be compelled to give the shop up, but meantime it helped defray expenses and gave Fanny an occupation.
• Jansenius selected a highly ornamental one, and proposed to defray half the cost of its erection.
• And as we do not require a great amount of money to defray our little domestic expenses, I think it would be wrong for us to waste the best part of our lives in useless delay.
• I now transmit 5 pounds, being the additional sum necessary to defray the entire expense of paper and printing.
• He even encouraged schemes for abolishing the order of bishops, and selling the dean and chapter lands, in order to defray the expenses of a Spanish war.
• They likewise proceeded in earnest upon the supply, and voted funds for raising about two millions seven hundred thousand pounds to defray the expense of the ensuing year.
• The common-council also agreed to pay any law expenses that might occur, and to defray all the expenses of their tables while in confinement.
• He proposed to raise the deficiency by loan, and to defray the interest by rendering permanent some of the temporary taxes imposed on account of the Spanish armament.
• Highly approve, deeply appreciate suggestion to defray expenses of German representative to Brussels conference.
• The Guardian would see no objection to this Haziratu’l-Quds being sold, and the fund received thereby being used to defray the cost of the Haziratu’l-Quds in Tokyo.
• As she was jogged along over the rough road to Shap, she made up her mind that Aunt Greenow would be the proper person to defray the expense of the coming election.
• The offerings of the faithful at his shrine helped to defray the expense of the building.
• Napier, would be too much for him as a private individual to defray.
• An old acquaintance of his endeavoured to collect money to defray the expences of his funeral, so that the scandal of being buried by the parish might be avoided.
• True, Le Grande had wished to defray all expenses, but Peter was inexorable.
• Lack of power to collect taxes, or to raise revenue to defray even the ordinary expenses of government.
• Here he was received with the most extraordinary kindness by the king, who gave him a guide and money to defray his expenses.
• They impose grave penalties upon me and threaten that I will be obliged to defray the expenses of the judge.
• A small fee is charged, partly to defray expenses, and partly to attract a class of people who disdain philanthropy and settlements.
• Crull was willing to advance, and also to defray the current expenses of housekeeping.
• Inclosed I send you a check for two hundred dollars, which, I think, will be sufficient to pay all your bills, and to defray your expenses home.
• To punish the insurgent tribes, and to defray in part the cost of the war, the New Zealand Government confiscated 2,800,000 acres of native land.
• The coroner said a few civil words when he heard that one of the visitors of the town, out of sheer pity, had offered to defray the expenses of the little funeral.
• I remained with them until I had accumulated sufficient funds to defray my expenses across the Atlantic, and then I set out on my journey.
• A marshal was also commissioned to provide him a table of twenty-four covers, and to defray all the expenses of his household.
• Catharine, highly gratified with this success, placed a purse of fifty thousand dollars in the hands of her son to defray the expenses of his journey.
• I say, my Lords, that these hereditary revenues would be more than adequate to defray all these charges.

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