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v. To undertake the payment of (costs or expenses); pay.

v. To spend (money).

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

v. To pay for (something).

v. To pay or discharge; to serve in payment of; to provide for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc.

v. To avert or appease, as by paying off; to satisfy.

To make compensation to or for; pay for the services or discharge the cost of; pay or pay for.

To satisfy; appease.

To meet or satisfy by payment, or by an equivalent; liquidate; settle; discharge: as, to defray the cost of a voyage, or of a lawsuit; to defray a tavern-bill; the profits will not defray the charges or expenses.

n. Wrong-doing.

v. bear the expenses of

"The suit said insurers have been subje ct to "assessments to defray operating expenses" of the insurance department since 1940, under state law."

defrayed    defraying    defrays   

pay   

satisfy    pay    liquidate    settle    meet    answer    bear    discharge    disburse   

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