defraying

Verb

defray (third-person singular simple present defrays, present participle defraying, simple past and past participle defrayed)

1. (transitive) To pay or discharge (a debt, expense etc.); to meet (the cost of something).
   • The expenses of the war, while in progress, were defrayed by executing rich men and confiscating their property.1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.29

   Synonyms:

   finance, fray, offset

2. (archaic, transitive) To pay for (something).
3. (obsolete, transitive) To spend (money).