Sentence examples for defrayed- from inspiring English sources
Some costs will be defrayed through profits on its 57% stake in the park.
If you exempt any of the rich charities, you must proportionally burden those classes, for the actual expenditure must be defrayed; and if A is let off, B must pay more.
A pupil of the sculptor Lysippus, Chares fashioned for the Rhodians a colossal bronze statue of the sun god Helios, the cost of which was defrayed by selling engines of war left by Demetrius I Poliorcetes after a siege in 305 304 bce.
"However, the cost of all the constructions made by novacap will... be defrayed by the sale of eighty thousand residential ground lots and thousands of small farms surrounding the capital".
Part of this leap, without doubt, is attributable to the opening, in 1992, of the Orioles' highly popular new park, Camden Yards (whose construction costs, by the way, were defrayed by a Maryland bond issue).
And even though they probably didn't owe the delivery guy the entire tab for the mutual mistake, they should have defrayed some of his loss, at least covering what the husband ate.
Police and soldiers had to hold back the rush at a local office of the ruling party as voters clamoured for handouts of hundreds of dollars, ostensibly to help defray housing costs.Yet the voters could not be bought.
Without properly encoded and encrypted movie files from the studios, even the most high-tech directors will not be able to get their work in front of an audience.Mr Beck suspects that cinemas keen to start defraying the cost of their projectors might not be prepared to wait.
The "back-hauling" of goods to South Africa fish from Mozambique or strawberries from Zimbabwe helps to defray the cost of moving stuff the other way, says Dallas Langman, an executive at Pick n Pay.
Under his scheme, families would receive $5,000 to defray the cost of their health insurance.
In an especially notorious punitive expedition against Benin (in modern-day Nigeria) in 1897, the British not only plundered the kingdom's treasures but sold them to foreign collectors to defray their operational expenses (ie, the oppressed were required to finance the cost of their oppression).
