rake-off
noun
a share or amount taken or received illicitly, as in connection with a public enterprise.
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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
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
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
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
It is a lamentable fact that not a few of the wealthiest showmen in this country have swelled their fortunes by the "rake-off" from the despicable gains of these blacklegs and tricksters.
From Sawdust & Spangles Stories & Secrets of the Circus by W. C. Coup
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
Rollo began to rake off the leaves with his fingers, and then sat down, and went to digging a hole in the sand.
From Rollo's Experiments by Jacob Abbott
It was, he saw, necessary that he should explain the meaning of a "rake off," and he did so to his companion's entertainment.
From The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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