rake-off
- n a percentage (of winnings or loot or profit) taken by an operator or gangster
- The private owner can have his rake-off so long as the rake-off is not too expensive, but this attitude on the part of private enterprise that the Government must not come in .
- Huang was convicted of receiving 4,100,000 Chinese dollars ($205,000 official rate) rake-off in purchasing military supplies.
- Sources close to the investigation said that some of the rake-off methods were quite sophisticated, including one plan in which contractors favored with government business .