Meanings (ES + gloss)
costear
To pay or discharge (a debt, expense etc.); to meet (the cost of something).
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.
The expenses of the war, while in progress, were defrayed by executing rich men and confiscating their property.