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
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The gamblers from Genoa stopped paying their rake-off to the government.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Though most officers are dissatisfied with this explanation, few, if any, believe that there is any rake-off at the top.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Up to that time the two men had made a substantial rake-off six days in every week.
From The Iron Boys in the Mines or, Starting at the Bottom of the Shaft by Mears, James R.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.