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rake-off

[reyk-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

Their proposition was to get the manufacturers Government contracts in return for a 3% rake-off.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

The latter, through the good offices of a middleman working for his rake-off, secured the limits on Rat Lake.

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




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