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
Theatre treasurers, as well as a number of managers, receive from the agencies a rake-off of anywhere from 25� to $2 a ticket for preferred locations.
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 charge: Abdulgani was involved in a $130,000 rake-off from the firms that printed the 43 million ballots for last year's Indonesian elections.
From Time Magazine Archive
As it advanced there was a tightening of the tension and at the welcome “amen” there was a grand rake-off.
From The Story of a Doctor's Telephone?Told by His Wife by Firebaugh, Ellen M.
