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Definition of Defraying
1. defray [v] - See also: defray
Lexicographical Neighbors of Defraying
Literary usage of Defraying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1800)
"For defraying the charge of the difference of pay between the ... For defraying
the charge of 4300 men, the troops of the reigning Duke of ..."
2. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1788)
"For defraying the charge of five Hanoverian regiments of foot at Gibraltar ...
For defraying the charge of 13472 men of the troops of the Landgrave of Heffe ..."
3. The Laws of the United States of America by United States (1804)
"... and Preji- dent of the Senate. APPROVED—APRIL 2, 1802. TH: JEFFERSON. CHAPTER XVI.
AN ACT making appropriation for defraying the ..."
4. Statutes of the Province of Ontario by Ontario (1871)
"I. An Act for granting to Her Majesty certain sums of money required for defraying
the expenses of Civil Government for the year one thousand eight hundred ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... things needed in this approach of man to God: for defraying the expenses (xxx.
11-16); for priestly functions, viz., the laver (xxx. ..."
6. The Statutes of Nova Scotia by Nova Scotia (1903)
"An Act to provide for defraying certain expenses of the Civil Government of the
Province. (Passed the nth day of April, AD, 1903. ..."
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