rake-off
noun
a share or amount taken or received illicitly, as in connection with a public enterprise.
rake-off
American
[rayk-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
In the days when there were as many as 25 ships in the harbor, the capataces' rake-off amounted to $25,000 a week.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though most officers are dissatisfied with this explanation, few, if any, believe that there is any rake-off at the top.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their proposition was to get the manufacturers Government contracts in return for a 3% rake-off.
From Time Magazine Archive
I’ve paid you over a thousand dollars rake-off.
From Young 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
Ignorance, unfathomable ignorance, is at the bottom of much of it; if the Town Treasurer of Yuba Dam gets a $100 "rake off" on a paving contract, our city government is a failure.
From The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I by Burton Jesse Hendrick
The lower ones see the higher ones raking off, and they rake off, too—down to conductors and brakemen.
From The Deluge by David Graham Phillips
"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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