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
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
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
The gamblers from Genoa stopped paying their rake-off to the government.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Kloon had turned a deaf ear to his suggestions, — Kloon, who never entertained ambitions beyond his hootch rake-off, — whose miserable imagination stopped at a wretched percentage, satisfied.
From The Flaming Jewel by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
