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rake in

verb

  1. informal,  (tr, adverb) to acquire (money) in large amounts

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The lender also updated its guidance to include its recent acquisition of German private bank HAL and expects to rake in more than 6.3 billion euros in net interest income, or NII, this year.

Also going under the hammer is a 10.08-carat vivid pink diamond, named "The Glowing Rose", which is expected to rake in around $20 million.

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B. Meat packers are “corporate criminals” and Tyson Foods is abusing its “corporate market power and raking in record profits by jacking up meat prices.”

But more recently they expanded to cyberscam operations, with each family controlling dozens of scam compounds and casinos that raked in billions of dollars.

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Oh, and, for Musk to rake in his trillion, there are all sorts of product milestones — robotaxis in operation, robots sold and so on — that the company has to hit, as well.

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