Usually means: Percentage taken from profits illegally.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word rake-off:

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  1. rake-off: Merriam-Webster
  2. rake-off: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rake-off: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rake-off, rake-off: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rake-off: Vocabulary.com
  6. rake-off: Wordnik
  7. rake-off: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. rake-off: Wiktionary
  9. rake-off: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. rake-off: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. rake-off: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. rake-off: Dictionary.com
  13. rake-off: Rhymezone
  14. rake-off: FreeDictionary.org
  15. rake-off: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. rake-off: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rake-off: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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noun:  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.

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