Definition of "defrayed" [defrayed]

• Simple past tense and past participle of defray. (verb)

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• "It is not without a certain degree of romantic pride that I look back and know that the first expenses of my son's life were defrayed from the price of that first creation of my brain; and before that child was two years old, I had procured for my husband, – (for the husband who has lately overwhelmed me, my sons, and his dead patron with slander, rather than yield a miserable annuity) – a place worth a thousand a year; the arduous duty of which consisted in attending three days in the week, for five hours, to hear causes tried in the simplest forms of law."
• "The Unemployment stats will not turn around inside a time-frame of the current administration, as rehires will be defrayed by elimination of Underemployment -- this means an additional five hours per average workweek, Workweek stats overreport actual hours worked: claiming in excess of 43 hours, when there is a actual Workweek of only about 37 hours."
• "Because health services are so expensive, the costs are defrayed over many years."