The act or process of paying for or covering a cost or expense.
From defray + -ment suffix (denoting action, process, or result). Similar to defrayal, -ment is an alternative nominalization suffix used throughout English.
Defrayment and defrayal mean exactly the same thing, but defrayment appears even less frequently in modern English—it's like having two old-fashioned words when one would do.
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