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Rake Off

Definition: Rake Off

Rake Off

Verb

1. Take money from an illegal transaction.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

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Crosswords: Rake Off

Specialty definitions using "rake off": CASTING-OPERATOR HELPERHEAVY-MEDIA OPERATOR. (references)

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Modern Translations: Rake Off

Language Translations for "rake off"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

ryshfet (boodle, bribe, fix, graft, hush money, palm oil, swag), mitë (bribe). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فائدة بسيطة (simple interest), ‏عمولة غير شرعية. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

търмъча (rake, rake away), незаконна облага, процент (per cent, percentage, proportion, quota, rate). (various references)

   

Czech

  

shrábnout (grab, mop up, scoop, skim off). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

προμήθεια (brokerage, commission, kickback, placing commission, poundage, procurement, provision, purveyance, selling fee, stores, supply), παράνομα κέρδη. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

illetéktelen haszon (perks, perquisite, plunder), félregereblyéz (to rake off). (various references)

   

Italian

  

provvigione (commission, factorage), parte (direction, faction, it leaves, leaves, moiety, part, Parthian, piece, portion, portion of a piece, quarter, rate, role, section, segment, share, side, whack), intascare (bag, pocket). (various references)

   

Manx

  

geddyn folliu, foilliu (commission, fee, royalties). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

akeray offay.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

ciubuc (beading, boodle, chibouk, gain, gravy, hookah, list, molding, moulding, ogee, racket, tip). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

взятка (backhander, baksheesh, boodle, bribe, cumshaw, douceur, fix, golden key, graft, palm grease, palm oil, payoff, payola, silver key, sop), незаконная прибыль. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zgrabuljati. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

parte de ganancias no legales. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vinstandel (dividend). (various references)

   

Thai

  

แบ่งเงินที่ไ"้มาอย่างผิ"กฏหมาย (คำไม่เป็นทางการ). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yolsuzluk yapmak (graft), yolsuz kazanç, kanunsuz yoldan para kazanmak, kanunsuz kazanç (loot). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

хабар (boodle, bribe, brokage, douceur, gratification, gratuity, payola, sop, sugarplum, swag), комісійні (commission), могорич. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Rake Off

Misspellings

"Rake Off" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: rakeoff. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Rake Off

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: rakeoff.

Words within the letters "a-e-f-f-k-o-r"

-2 letters: afore, faker, freak, offer.

-3 letters: aero, fake, fare, faro, fear, fora, fore, fork, frae, froe, kerf, kore, okra, raff, rake.

-4 letters: aff, are, arf, ark, ear, eff, era, far, fer, foe, for, fro, kae, kaf, kea, kef, koa, kor, oaf, oak, oar, off, oka, oke, ora, ore, ref, roe.

-5 letters: ae, ar, ef, er, fa, ka, oe, of, or, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-f-f-k-o-r"
 

+1 letter: rakeoffs.

 

+4 letters: coffeemaker.

 

+5 letters: coffeemakers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Rake Off


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 61 6B 65      4F 66 66

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100001 01101011 01100101 00100000 01001111 01100110 01100110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#97 &#107 &#101 &#32 &#79 &#102 &#102

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0061 006B 0065      004F 0066 0066

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

526777712497272

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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