rake-off
noun
a share or amount taken or received illicitly, as in connection with a public enterprise.
rake-off
American
[reyk-awf, -of]
/ ˈreɪkˌɔf, -ˌɒf /
noun
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a share or amount taken or received illicitly, as in connection with a public enterprise.
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a share, as of profits.
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a discount in the price of a commodity.
We got a 20 percent rake-off on the dishwasher.
rake-off
British
noun
verb
rake off
Idioms
Etymology
Origin of rake-off
1885–90, noun use of verb phrase rake off
Example Sentences
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But the men with no fingerprints won’t permit it, those athletic directors and presidents who have subverted college athletics into a rake-off while pretending to govern them.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 21, 2019
Their proposition was to get the manufacturers Government contracts in return for a 3% rake-off.
From Time Magazine Archive
The divine detectives who arrest Joseph K. are brassy louts who eat his breakfast, try to get a rake-off by sending out for his food, try to make off with his shirt and underwear.
From Time Magazine Archive
The charge: Abdulgani was involved in a $130,000 rake-off from the firms that printed the 43 million ballots for last year's Indonesian elections.
From Time Magazine Archive
I'll show that gentleman how to horn into my game and take the rake-off that's coming to a real artist!
From Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford by George Randolph Chester
Their strategy for the next generation of personal technology is to control the ecosystem at every level, and to rake off a piece of all the financial transactions taking place there.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2010
He's trying to expose politicians who rake off the profits, and he recently unearthed three whistle-blowers who claim that Arroyo's husband, son and brother-in-law are involved.
From Time Magazine Archive
When they are well dried, thresh with a flail, rake off the straw, sweep up the beans and clean by winnowing in the wind or with a fanning mill with suitable screens.
From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Edward J. (Edward James) Wickson
Cut down the brown grass and rake off all the weeds and rubbish, and finish by putting on a dressing of seaweed, or half-rotten stable manure.
From The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition by Sutton and Sons
"I've won a thousand dollars on Lauzanne—" "Come on, pard," said Old Bill, impatiently interrupting them, "let's get our rake off, an' den you kin buck to yer chum after."
From Thoroughbreds by William Alexander Fraser
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