defrayment

Other forms of defrayment

plural

defrayments·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about defrayment

What does defrayment mean?

defrayment means "the act of paying money".

How many syllables are in defrayment?

defrayment has 3 syllables and divides as de-fray-ment under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for defrayment?

Close synonyms include payment, defrayal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is defrayment a common word?

defrayment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.