Rake-off in a sentence as a noun

Was he not unmistakably a Little Man — a creature of the petty rake-off pocketed with a petty joke in private and denied with the stalest platitudes in his public utterances — a grubby little nonentity who had drifted into corruption, only just realizing that he was corrupt, and chiefly be-cause everyone else did it?

Rake-off definitions

noun

a percentage (of winnings or loot or profit) taken by an operator or gangster

See also: vigorish