(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.
Disburse
Definition:
(v. t.) To pay out; to expend; -- usually from a public fund or treasury.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, controversy and differing opinions about the disbursement of contraceptives remains.
(2) Everything has to move quickly because delaying the discussion and delaying the disbursement of the [next tranche] does not help the real economy.
(3) It also points to the huge benefits of small and rapid disbursements of funding: one doctor said that, had DfID provided him with the £7,500 he repeatedly asked for in June 2014 for eight isolation units, the money would have had the impact of “hundreds of thousands of pounds later on”.
(4) The OMP, due to run until 2014, has disbursed £3m to date.
(5) Less than half of the $5.1bn pledged to counter the epidemic has so far been disbursed.
(6) Only in this way could they assume active stewardship over the disbursement of their fortunes, applying the knowledge, expertise and temperament that gained them their piles toward the difficult task of giving them away.
(7) Hardly any development funding for implementation has been disbursed.” 68 million children likely to die by 2030 from preventable causes, report says Read more Dr David Richmond, president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said the series offered a “wake-up call to governments worldwide to make faster progress in reducing the number of stillbirths, which wreak untold damage on families, care givers and communities”.
(8) Ciff has already disbursed $7.5m from its overall $20m commitment : $2m to support MSF’s work on the ground, $3m to the Red Cross, and $2.5m to support Unicef in Sierra Leone.
(9) The group, which does not speak Creole, relies on a young local fixer to select beneficiaries, disburse funds and keep records.
(10) There is often pressure to disburse aid rapidly and there are immense organisational challenges in suddenly expanding the scope and scale of programme delivery.
(11) Although this is not new money, the cash will now be disbursed with more urgency to kickstart infrastructure projects currently struggling for credit with the hope of galvanising private spending.
(12) Speaking after the meeting in Brussels, he said it was too early to make a decision on unlocking the next tranche of Greece’s €86bn (£73bn) bailout, but he hoped agreement on reforms would make a disbursal of funds possible.
(13) Mrs Ecclestone received disbursements from the trusts, in other words she also has a personal asset.
(14) The system of a government official inspecting toilets before disbursing money doesn’t work because toilet users do not feel ownership, he argues.
(15) Records suggest Inhofe’s 2014 campaign was a funding priority for the BP PAC, ranking as one of the top recipients of committee funds when compared with disbursements to other serving senators.
(16) The report adds: "Finance for adaptation is an obligation – it must be separate and additional to aid commitments, in the form of grants not loans, and disbursed through equitable governance mechanisms."
(17) Aides say the conservative leader will impress upon Barroso for rescue funds to be released as soon as possible saying “with the budget vote Greece has done its bit, now it is up to Europe to do the same.” The Greek finance minister Yiannis Stournaras, who is in Brussels, says despite disagreement between the EU and IMF over how to resolve Greece’s debt sustainability, disbursement of the long-delayed €31.5bn aid package is now a “done deal.” The technocrat said he believed the entire amount would be “deposited in an account at the Bank of Greece by the end of November or early December” once individual member state parliaments had voted on the package.
(18) The average payment of £700 plus disbursements has not increased since 2003, and less than half of those who apply are successful anyway."
(19) He recommends a punitive or even 100% tax, and a low or zero tax on their disbursement.
(20) Britain is yet to make a decision on whether to disburse the remaining £8m, which is due in December.