Talk:rake-off

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What Fifty Boys Did to Get Themselves Fired (Literary Digest, July 19, 1919):


 * He gave short weights to customers that he might have an overplus of ice to sell to others on his own account as a rake-off. Any rake-off, no matter what nor how obtained, is rank dishonesty, and I could not keep a thief in my employ.

Makes it sound like it could be embezzlement too. 69.202.207.228 04:04, 13 March 2022 (UTC)