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
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
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The gamblers from Genoa stopped paying their rake-off to the government.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Theatre treasurers, as well as a number of managers, receive from the agencies a rake-off of anywhere from 25� to $2 a ticket for preferred locations.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Nor was this just a grand-stand play; Maud got a rake-off, so they say.
From Poems for Pale People A Volume of Verse by Ranck, Edwin Carty
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.