verb

definition

To spend (money).

definition

To pay or discharge (a debt, expense etc.); to meet (the cost of something).

definition

To pay for (something).

Examples of defraying in a Sentence

However large the wealth he brought back from India, all was swallowed up in defraying the expenses of his trial.

The police rate is made for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the county police.

The organ is endowed with £ 1000., three per cent consols, for defraying the salary of the organist, Mr. Thos.

For defraying the expenses of the state government, exclusive of the interest on the bonded debt, the tax rate is limited by the constitution to four mills on the dollar of assessed valuation.

That expense, indeed, he had the means of defraying; for he had laid up about two thousand pounds, the fruit of labours which had made the fortune of several publishers.

In respect to finance this authority was strikingly manifested in the burdens imposed on wealthy citizens by the requirements of the " liturgies " (Xarovpyiat), which consisted in the provision of a chorus for theatrical performances, or defraying the expenses of the public games, or, finally, the equipment of a ship, " the trierarchy," which was economically and politically the most important.

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