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recover expenditure; defray the expenses (yesterday, at the rooms of the Royal Geographical Society, and the sum of twenty-five hundred pounds was voted to defray the expenses of the enterprise. | If you live in New York and are invited for a job interview in California, the company may defray the expenses of your plane ticket and hotel, especially if they ... Alexander Demidov); defray the costs (Money raised goes to help defray the costs of legal fees for scientists who are. the subjects of the above-mentioned witch hunts. | ... general fund by taking $50 million from county hospitals that was earmarked to defray the costs of providing care to indigent patients involved in accidents. | Back in London, the Foreign Office sold many objects to the British Museum and other buyers" to defray the costs of the expedition". Times, Sunday Times (2002). Alexander Demidov) |
