to take a part of the profits from something, especially in an unfair or dishonest way
I have to mount operations in them without anyone knowing because maybe their security people are getting a rake-off too.
She kept telling me I wasn't getting my share either, that Kevin was taking too much of a rake-off.
You'll have to fork out on publicity -- but there's no gallery to take a rake-off so you're quids in with the first sale.
rakes off
raking off
raked off
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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