Meaning & use
defray
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to provide money to pay all or part of a cost or expense.
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The scholarship helped defray the cost of her tuition.
Ticket sales are used to defray the expenses of running the festival.
A note on using this word
Defray is typically used with 'cost' or 'expense' and often implies covering only part of an expense rather than all of it.
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