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 gamblers from Genoa stopped paying their rake-off to the government.
From Time Magazine Archive
The latter, through the good offices of a middleman working for his rake-off, secured the limits on Rat Lake.
From The Boss of Wind River by Chisholm, A. M. (Arthur Murray)
