rake
Example Sentences
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Product lines like KitKat, Nespresso and Purina pet food rake in billions of dollars of sales a year, but Nestlé also owns a raft of smaller earners such as Hot Pockets and vitamins.
While crews worked diligently to rake the fake snow over exposed rocks and patches of bare dirt on Friday, skiers and boarders scraped by like traffic on the 405 Freeway.
From Los Angeles Times
A group of high-frequency trading firms has exploited the practice to rake in hundreds of millions of dollars, says Mosaic Finance, a French firm that has complained to Eurex and European regulators.
Together, the three companies raked in nearly half of the $1 trillion in ad spending worldwide.
Today it’s Nvidia and other chip makers supplying the processing power to the data centers and raking in profits.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
