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
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
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
That last time in Port Said, when the police rushed into his cabin not five minutes after the laundryman, who also took his rake-off, had carried the stuff ashore in a boat-load of dirty sheets.
From Command by McFee, William
