Examples of “defray” in a Sentence

verb To provide the money needed to cover a debt or expense.

• In order to help defray the substantial costs involved, they then raised revenue through taking advertisements. — Roy Greenslade, The Guardian (2010)
• The expenses of the war, while in progress, were defrayed by executing rich men and confiscating their property. — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy (1946)
• Investors, meanwhile, got back a fraction of their money. Some say Mr Meinl’s €100m bail, paid by a source in Liechtenstein, should be used to defray their losses. — ‘A Viennese grind’, The Economist (2009)