defalk
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French défalquer.
Verb[edit]
defalk (third-person singular simple present defalks, present participle defalking, simple past and past participle defalked)
- (archaic) To reduce by deducting a part, especially when used in a financial sense.
- (obsolete) To cut off, to deduct, to subtract (especially expenses or a sum of money).
References[edit]
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “defalk”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.