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   defray

   /dɪˈfreɪ/

   verb

   • 1. provide money to pay (a cost or expense): "the proceeds from the raffle help to defray the expenses of the evening"

   Word 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’).

   Derivatives

   • 1. defrayable adjective
   • 2. defrayal noun
   • 3. defrayment noun

   Scrabble Points: 13

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   • E

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   • R

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