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double-dip
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double-dip (American)
double-dipping - the activity of receiving money from two different places or two different jobs, often when it is not honest or legal. It is tempting for physicians to double-dip by sending their patients to labs they have a financial interest in.

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Instead of saying I planned wisely for my retirement, I am branded a greedy double-dipper.
How about the two double-dippers, Bernard Parks and Dennis Zine, deferring their pensions until they retire from the council and then accepting only one at that time?
In a supporting role as ``the mayor,'' James Hahn played the part of the double-dipper, first taking EIDC funds for his mayoral campaign, and then soliciting $10,000 for his anti-San Fernando Valley secession crusade even as he sat on EIDC's executive committee.
 
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