Rake Off (Verb)
Meaning
Take money from an illegal transaction.
Classification
Verbs of buying, selling, owning.
Examples
- The corrupt government official was caught trying to rake off millions of dollars from the shady construction deal.
- The leader of the organized crime syndicate would rake off a significant portion of the profits from each extortion scheme.
- The corrupt politician was accused of using his position to rake off large sums of cash from the illicit arms trade.
- The middleman was tasked with skimming and raking off a substantial cut of the ill-gotten gains from the counterfeit operation.
- It was rumored that the CEO of the company had been secretly working to rake off millions from the company's offshore accounts to fund his lavish lifestyle.