defrayed

Picked up costs

Defrayed means paid or covered, typically referring to expenses or costs.

When costs are defrayed, someone has taken responsibility for paying them: The grant defrayed her tuition expenses.

The word appears almost exclusively in formal or administrative contexts, rarely in everyday speech.

payment

covered

Having protection atop

subsidized · underwritten · sponsored · settled · discharged · met · satisfied · cleared · offset · absorbed

subsidy

subsidized

Offset by external funding

supported · backed · bankrolled · endowed · granted · contributed · donated · patronized · allocated · provided

reimbursement

reimbursed

Paid back for expenses

indemnified · compensated · recovered · restored · returned · made whole · squared · recompensed · settled up

cost-sharing

copayments

Patient's portion of charges

premiums · coverage · reimbursement · allowance · contribution · split · shared · apportioned · prorated · pooled

expenses

travel

Movement between locations

operational · incidental · moving · relocation · conference · research · administrative · living · housing · transportation

Opposites
payment status

defrayedunpaid

Not yet compensated

uncovered · outstanding · owed · unmet · unsettled

financial action direction

defrayedbilled

Requested payment from

charged · incurred · accrued · took · collected

Family

defray, defraying, defrays

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G