defray
verb (formal)- defray costs/expenses
to give somebody back the money that they have spent on something 支付，付给（已开支的款项） $2 million of the capital reserve was used to defray the costs of rebuilding the factory. 200万美元的资本储备被用来支付重建工厂的费用。 Proceeds from the raffle always help to defray the expenses of the annual dance. 卖彩票的收益总能帮助支付周年舞会的费用。 While he was in prison his house and its furniture were sold to defray his debts. 他在狱中时，他的房子和家具被卖掉来还债。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryDefray is used with these nouns as the object:- cost
- expense
Word Originlate 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’).