rake-off
Example Sentences
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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
Some mow and rake off and burn outside the bed, then with a two horse cultivator dig up the paths and cultivate and get the ground in condition.
"As for me, I care little if they rake off this old gray head, ten or eleven years sooner than I should die in the course of nature."
From Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages by Various
How I could rake off the crows with it in plantin' time!
From Samantha at the World's Fair by Grimm, Baron C. de
