rake in
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[edit]Verb
[edit]rake in (third-person singular simple present rakes in, present participle raking in, simple past and past participle raked in)
- (literally) To collect something such as leaves into a pile, often with a rake.
- Near-synonym: rake up
- (figuratively, colloquial) To receive or to collect a large quantity of (something, especially money).
- Hypernyms: take in; earn
- The company barely lifted a finger, and yet it still raked in more than two million euros in consulting fees.
- 2023 August 17, Aditya Chakrabortty, “Can’t pay and they really do take it away: what happens when the bailiffs come knocking”, in The Guardian[1]:
- A letter demanding payment costs her £75. A knock on the door from a company representative: another £235. Taking her car: an extra £110. Then there’s a daily storage charge, so that she pays £24 for every day she can’t drive. These were fees set by the government, using the industry’s sums. The result is that the firms chasing some of the poorest people in the country can rake in handsome profit margins.