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Defray

To pay or discharge; to serve in payment of; to provide for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc.

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Pay 76% connected

To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.

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Defrayal 74% connected

The act of defraying; payment; as, the defrayal of necessary costs.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Defrayal 74% connected

The act of defraying; payment; as, the defrayal of necessary costs.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Payment 74% connected

The act of paying, or giving compensation; the discharge of a debt or an obligation.

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Payment 74% connected

The act of paying, or giving compensation; the discharge of a debt or an obligation.

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Acceptilation noun · 78% connection

Gratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission.

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Acquit verb · 78% connection

To set free, release or discharge from an obligation, duty, liability, burden, or from an accusation or charge; -- now followed by of…

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Acquittance noun · 78% connection

The clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability.

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Apply verb · 78% connection

To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate; to devote; as, to apply money to th…

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Charge verb · 78% connection

To place something to the account of as a debt; to debit, as, to charge one with goods. Also, to enter upon the debit side of an accou…

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Compensation noun · 78% connection

The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the pay…

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Debenture noun · 78% connection

A writing acknowledging a debt; a writing or certificate signed by a public officer, as evidence of a debt due to some person; the sum…

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Discharge verb · 78% connection

The act of discharging; the act of relieving of a charge or load; removal of a load or burden; unloading; as, the discharge of a ship;…

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Discount verb · 78% connection

To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of; as, merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent…

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Disprovide verb · 78% connection

Not to provide; to fail to provide.

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Elegit noun · 78% connection

A judicial writ of execution, by which a defendant's goods are appraised and delivered to the plaintiff, and, if not sufficient to sat…

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Expense noun · 78% connection

That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; cost; outlay; charge; -- sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom t…

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Extort verb · 78% connection

To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity;…

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Fund verb · 78% connection

To provide and appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for the payment of the interest of; to make permanent provision of resources (a…

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Funding adjective · 78% connection

Providing a fund for the payment of the interest or principal of a debt.

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Guarantee noun · 78% connection

In law and common usage: A promise to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some duty, in case of the failure of…

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Guaranty noun · 78% connection

In law and common usage: An undertaking to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some contract or duty, of anothe…

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Hypothecation noun · 78% connection

The act or contract by which property is hypothecated; a right which a creditor has in or to the property of his debtor, in virtue of…

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