defray
verb
[ dɪˈfreɪ ]
• provide money to pay (a cost or expense).
• "the proceeds from the raffle help to defray the expenses of the evening"
Similar:
pay (for),
cover,
meet,
square,
settle,
clear,
discharge,
liquidate,
foot the bill for,
pick up the tab/check for,
Origin:
late Middle English (in the general sense ‘spend money’): from French défrayer, from dé- (expressing removal) + obsolete frai ‘cost, expenses’ (from medieval Latin fredum ‘a fine for breach of the peace’).
