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rake-off

[reyk-awf, -of] / ˈreɪkˌɔf, -ˌɒf /








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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

The gamblers from Genoa stopped paying their rake-off to the government.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their proposition was to get the manufacturers Government contracts in return for a 3% rake-off.

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

"You should get a rake-off because my business is increasing so I got to hire a couple salesmen and cutters!"

From The Competitive Nephew by Montague Glass




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