[dɪˈfreɪ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- provide money to pay (a cost or expense)
(e.g: the proceeds from the raffle help to defray the expenses of the evening)


Phrases:

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’)