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Cream off

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To extract the cream or creamy part from something.
  2. 2
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  3. 3
    To separate (the best part of something from the regular part).

    "Manuel points out that the real cost of corruption is not what is actually embezzled or creamed off the top: The best thing these people could do is just take from the public treasury directly, because that would be much less expensive."

  4. 4
    remove from the surface wordnet
  5. 5
    To use a cream (cold cream) to remove something (usually makeup, from one's face).
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  1. 6
    To earn, or embezzle, a percentage of a profit. figuratively

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