Rake-off
Full definition of rake-off
Noun
rake-off
(plural rake-offs)- 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.
- 2012, 24th November, The Economist, Spain and Catalonia: The trials of keeping a country togetherThe 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.