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Defray vs Minimize - What's the difference?

defray | minimize |

As verbs the difference between defray and minimize

is that defray is (obsolete) to spend (money) while minimize is to make (something) as small or as insignificant as possible.

defray

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete) To spend (money).
  • To pay or discharge (a debt, expense etc.); to meet (the cost of something).
  • * 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.29:
    • The expenses of the war, while in progress, were defrayed by executing rich men and confiscating their property.
  • * 2009 , ‘A Viennese grind’, The Economist , 30 Jul 2009:
    • Investors, meanwhile, got back a fraction of their money. Some say Mr Meinl’s €100m bail, paid by a source in Liechtenstein, should be used to defray their losses.
  • * 2010 , Roy Greenslade, The Guardian , 9 Dec 2010:
    • In order to help defray the substantial costs involved, they then raised revenue through taking advertisements.
  • To pay for (something).

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    minimize

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    Alternative forms

    * (l) (non-Oxford British spelling)

    Verb

    (minimiz)
  • To make (something) as small or as insignificant as possible.
  • (computing, transitive, graphical user interface) To remove (a window) from the main display area, collapsing it to an icon or caption.
    • I didn't close anything, but I minimized all the windows so I could see the desktop.