What's the difference between defray and defrayal?

Defray


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pay or discharge; to serve in payment of; to provide for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc.
  • (v. t.) To avert or appease, as by paying off; to satisfy; as, to defray wrath.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It would cost, say, £15 a call to defray lost fees, and the number could only be used once.
  • (2) The BBC must also make sure that any project spending that benefits partners must be defrayed equally to ensure there is no breach of state aid rules.
  • (3) As the final cherry on the cake, the cost of upgrading the route to take 140mph expresses could be defrayed from the extra profits the express operators would make.
  • (4) This packet also included a letter requesting a donation to BRPC to help defray operational expenses.
  • (5) They can then be taxed to help defray some of the costs.
  • (6) In an effort to attract critical care staff to hospitals and defray education costs, many hospitals are asking educators to market critical care programming to the nursing community.
  • (7) The cost of health care, particularly medical specialty care, was defrayed in large part by private insurance and public programs, such as Medicaid and Title V Programs for children with special health care needs, while financial support for related services, such as physical therapy and speech therapy, came largely through the schools.
  • (8) The program is designed to help defray the cost that an Arizona student faces in attending an out-of-state medical school by paying, in the student's behalf, the difference between the resident and nonresident tuition at the out-of-state school.
  • (9) With this money, the dean can defray the direct as well as the indirect costs of the clinical study; the remainder, which would otherwise go directly to the investigator, should be placed in a funding pool for which the entire medical school could compete.
  • (10) Society already bears a large part of the costs attributable to the lack of adequate health expense protection for the uninsured, whether through lost manhours and productivity resulting from the postponement of needed medical attention or through defraying the economic burden of uncompensated care.
  • (11) But funds from Bosch’s settlement are expected to defray VW’s compensation costs.
  • (12) Priority concerns for cancer control in hereditary breast cancer are the development of registries of cancer-prone families, willingness by third-party carriers to help defray the costs of surveillance, and more research in molecular genetics.
  • (13) We need cost-benefit research to induce third party carriers to defray expenses for surveillance.

Defrayal


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of defraying; payment; as, the defrayal of necessary costs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It would cost, say, £15 a call to defray lost fees, and the number could only be used once.
  • (2) The BBC must also make sure that any project spending that benefits partners must be defrayed equally to ensure there is no breach of state aid rules.
  • (3) As the final cherry on the cake, the cost of upgrading the route to take 140mph expresses could be defrayed from the extra profits the express operators would make.
  • (4) This packet also included a letter requesting a donation to BRPC to help defray operational expenses.
  • (5) They can then be taxed to help defray some of the costs.
  • (6) In an effort to attract critical care staff to hospitals and defray education costs, many hospitals are asking educators to market critical care programming to the nursing community.
  • (7) The cost of health care, particularly medical specialty care, was defrayed in large part by private insurance and public programs, such as Medicaid and Title V Programs for children with special health care needs, while financial support for related services, such as physical therapy and speech therapy, came largely through the schools.
  • (8) The program is designed to help defray the cost that an Arizona student faces in attending an out-of-state medical school by paying, in the student's behalf, the difference between the resident and nonresident tuition at the out-of-state school.
  • (9) With this money, the dean can defray the direct as well as the indirect costs of the clinical study; the remainder, which would otherwise go directly to the investigator, should be placed in a funding pool for which the entire medical school could compete.
  • (10) Society already bears a large part of the costs attributable to the lack of adequate health expense protection for the uninsured, whether through lost manhours and productivity resulting from the postponement of needed medical attention or through defraying the economic burden of uncompensated care.
  • (11) But funds from Bosch’s settlement are expected to defray VW’s compensation costs.
  • (12) Priority concerns for cancer control in hereditary breast cancer are the development of registries of cancer-prone families, willingness by third-party carriers to help defray the costs of surveillance, and more research in molecular genetics.
  • (13) We need cost-benefit research to induce third party carriers to defray expenses for surveillance.

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