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rake-off

[rayk-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 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

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

Ye don’t do that for love of us, nor yet for a rake-off, for ye asked for none.

From The Boss of Wind River by A. M. (Arthur Murray) Chisholm


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