Definition of "defrays" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defray. (verb)

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• "Too often people come in for their $50,000-100,000 bypass surgery that the hospital absorbs and defrays the cost of by making everyone else and their insurance pay for, when $500-$1000 of doctor visits and medication would have prevented or ameliorated the heart disease."
• "The select do not always oblige for all sorts of reasons: outward rejection of what is often an enormous social and financial responsibility, migration that defrays the personal ties, or perhaps religious conversion."
• "Insurances companies, although regulated more than they wished and what company doesn't want free reign to gouge, absorb nearly 33 million new customers, which immediately defrays the cost for what they will eventually face legally in 2014."