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rake-offs

rake-offs is the plural of rake-off.

Meaning of rake-off

Noun

rake-off (plural rake-offs)

  1. A percentage of an amount of money taken by a third-party as a bribe, as part of an unlawful enterprise, or as a commission from the pot of a casino game.
    • The local party machines took control of the cajas, the local savings banks. They encouraged them to lend to developers, in many cases taking a rake-off for party coffers.2012 November 24, “Spain and Catalonia: The trials of keeping a country together”, in The Economist

Questions about rake-offs

What is rake-offs the plural of?
Rake-offs is the plural of rake-off.

Words near rake-offs in the dictionary

  1. rake-hell
  2. rake-hells
  3. rake-helly
  4. rake-n-scrape
  5. rake-off
  6. rake-offs
  7. rake-stepping
  8. rake-steppings
  9. rakeable
  10. rakeback
  11. rakebacks

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