as in to pay
somewhat formal
to provide money for (something)
This will defray the costs.
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Recent Examples of defray
And pandemic-era funding — where school districts got millions of dollars to help defray the extra costs of remote learning — also came to an end this year.
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Clara-Sophia Daly, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2025
Desire for incentives for relocating businesses, building conversions An effort launched by Louisville Metro Government in late 2023 dedicated $3 million to attract new businesses to the Central Business District by defraying the cost of improvements.
—Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 25 June 2024
Annual tuition for the online program is $11,000, and most of Rattigan’s virtual students use school-choice programs to defray that cost as well.
—Kerry McDonald, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
And in a way, those funds are actually defraying additional funds for direct costs that the federal government might have had to provide to do the same research.
—Taylor Haney, NPR, 12 Feb. 2025
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Clara-Sophia Daly, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2025
Desire for incentives for relocating businesses, building conversions An effort launched by Louisville Metro Government in late 2023 dedicated $3 million to attract new businesses to the Central Business District by defraying the cost of improvements.
—Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 25 June 2024
Annual tuition for the online program is $11,000, and most of Rattigan’s virtual students use school-choice programs to defray that cost as well.
—Kerry McDonald, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
And in a way, those funds are actually defraying additional funds for direct costs that the federal government might have had to provide to do the same research.
—Taylor Haney, NPR, 12 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for defray
Verb
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At its heart, the trial was about whether college athletes and former college athletes should be paid more than nothing for use of their NIL in video games and other products.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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That is to say, preventing e-commerce players like Shein and Temu from shipping direct-to-consumer orders into the U.S. without duties while other companies pay tariffs to import their inventory en masse.—
Meghan Hall,
Sourcing Journal,
3 Apr. 2025
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The unions pushed back on that, arguing that the incentive should be used to keep as many jobs in California as possible, and not to subsidize projects primarily filmed in other states or overseas.—
Gene Maddaus,
Variety,
4 Apr. 2025
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Private bus companies, in the 1950s and 1960s, were fiscal failures and nation wide those services were converted into transit districts that were state and federally subsidized.—
George Pohorilak,
Hartford Courant,
4 Apr. 2025
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That’s bad news for those relying at least in part on their stock portfolio to realize short-term goals, such as buying a home or funding an imminent retirement.—
Ryan Ermey,
CNBC,
7 Apr. 2025
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The contracts funded services to help refugees, unaccompanied refugee minors, asylees, and victims of human trafficking and torture.—
April Rubin,
Axios,
7 Apr. 2025
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In some cases, Russia is believed to have directly financed the election campaigns of candidates friendly to its interests.—
Josh Holder,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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The Little River project will be financed by a combination of private investment, which Swerdlow said has already been secured, and the sale of federal tax credits designed to support affordable housing development.—
Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Defray.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defray. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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