| 词汇 | defray |
| 释义 | defray verb[ T ] formaluk /dɪˈfreɪ/ us /dɪˈfreɪ/ (especially of an organization) to pay the cost of something: （尤指由某组织）支付，承担（费用） The company will defray all your expenses, including car rental.公司将承担你的全部费用，包括租车费。 Paying money 2FA 2SV ante up (something) burn a hole in someone's pocketidiom buying power cost-cutting fund non-contributory overpaid put someone through something put something on your/someone's card put something towards something reimburse run to something self-finance spend spent splurge sponsor tipper defray | Business Englishdefray verb[ T ] formal/dɪˈfreɪ/ukus to pay or provide all or part of the money for costs or expenses: defray costs/expensesA temporary tax rebate was available to help multinational corporations defray their business costs. Examples of defraydefray These societies were established and sustained by weekly contributions to defray the expenses of burial. Generous donations from individuals helped defray the costs. Much of this expenditure was defrayed by means of increasing tax burdens on single people and childless couples. By overstating the total costs of projects, these seemingly modest requests could defray a substantial portion of actual costs. Members pay a small monthly fee, which defrays local and national administrative costs. For defraying expenses, union administrators were empowered to levy rates (of taxation on local property valuations). Participation was voluntary after informed consent was obtained, and patients were compensated with $50 to defray cost for transportation and time. Evaluation is seen as a central component of a resultant new regime of scrutiny, which defrays political responsibility and replaces it with the 'virtuous circle of evaluation, evidence, performance'. Oddly enough, the opinions of cellular phone owners have not been heard, although it is they who defray the expenses of the copyright owners, operators and advertisers. One such reform is a voucher system, which gives money to qualifying parents to defray the costs of private school tuition or to send their children to other public schools. The gold had probably been received from somewhere as an offering to the palace (), which in turn used it to defray the costs of the enthronement ceremony. No provisions exist for payment towards defraying expenses or compensating the donor for loss of wages directly attributable to his/her act of supplying the organ. Many schools now hire inexperienced junior faculty at low pay, impose burdensome teaching loads, recruit ill-prepared nonethicists to help teach, and depend on research grants to defray ethics teaching costs. The second item in the purpose of the loan is the making of loans to planters or other persons to defray their expenditure. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is not an insubstantial amount; it could be used to defray the rising cost of dental treatment or eye tests, for instance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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