defrayal vs commerce

defrayal and commerce both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
defrayal	Yes	No	No	No
commerce	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, commerce is a hypernym of defrayal; that is, commerce is a word with a broader meaning than defrayal:

defrayal: the act of paying money
commerce: transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)

Other hypernyms of defrayal include commercialism, mercantilism.

defrayal (noun)	commerce (noun)
the act of paying money	transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)
	social exchange, especially of opinions, attitudes, etc.