(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.
Refund
Definition:
(v. t.) To fund again or anew; to replace (a fund or loan) by a new fund; as, to refund a railroad loan.
(v. t.) To pour back.
(v. t.) To give back; to repay; to restore.
(v. t.) To supply again with funds; to reimburse.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, some contactless transactions are processed offline so may not appear on a customer’s account until after the block has been applied.” It says payments that had been made offline on the day of cancellation may be applied to accounts and would be refunded when the customer identified them; payments made on days after the cancellation will not be taken from an account.
(2) The train operator advised passengers to use alternative routes with South West Trains and Chiltern Trains and has offered refunds to travellers who decide not to travel on Saturday.
(3) However, according to the the Professional Financial Claims Association (PFCA), only about half of the sums paid out represent refunded payments.
(4) Oliver's departure followed the exit of Kenneth Tong last Thursday, which forced Channel 4 to abandon the planned eviction vote on Friday and offer a refund to viewers who had already voted.
(5) When she appealed, East Coast apologised but incredibly refused a refund, until Money intervened.
(6) Passengers who have paid but choose not to travel due to this service disruption can receive a refund or a voucher for future travel,” the operator said.
(7) He said the fact so many people had not approached their bank showed how important it was that they should be forced to automatically refund their customers if they lost the case.
(8) "Energy suppliers benefiting from credits on customer accounts and failing to respond to requests to refund them was turning into a bone of contention.
(9) A spokesman for the SLC says: “We apologise to Miss Rodrigues for any inconvenience she encountered in arranging a refund of her overpaid balance and for any incorrect information she was given regarding interest.
(10) Some people will receive the refund in the form of a reduction in what they owe.
(11) Don't ignore the letter; your bank has written to you because it believes it may have mis-sold you PPI and this is your chance to respond and get a refund of your premiums.
(12) The full effect on sales has yet to be seen as the airline offered full refunds to passengers who had booked to fly later in the year after the shooting down of MH17.
(13) People who have already bought a case are entitled to a free cash refund.
(14) Then, earlier this month, a tentative legal settlement was reached that required Frey and his American publisher, Doubleday, to provide refunds to readers who felt they were defrauded in buying a book classified as memoir.
(15) I’m sorry to hear that happened, but that person will have a one person connection to go to to explain that’s happened to sort out.” In a later statement, a council spokesman said: “We are very sorry if this has happened and we are working to find out who has been affected so we can offer reassurance and an immediate refund.
(16) In practice most train companies will issue a refund when train services are delayed, irrespective of what caused the delay.
(17) Non-medical psychotherapists are not eligible for refunds by the health insurance system.
(18) A spokeswoman for NatWest confirmed it will not refund Wilson as she had "willingly handed over the money".
(19) However, this is BT we are dealing with, and even after we raised this with the company’s HQ, it was still rather hard work getting a proper refund.
(20) Despite the fact that the weight recorded on the seller's proof of posting showed that the parcel had been filled, and that the buyer refused to cooperate with Royal Mail's investigation, eBay found in the buyer's favour and refunded him.