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rake-off en · NOUN
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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:
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