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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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Although we were denied access to any statistics regarding withdrawal of detectives' moonlighting permits, if indeed any has been canceled, the sheer numbers of double-dippers engaging in this insidious practice would suggest that moonlighting detectives are thriving unchallenged.
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?
The loss of ``Seinfeld,'' which made the country laugh at the soup Nazi, close-talkers, chip double-dippers and loaves of marble rye, is a serious blow to NBC, which already has seen its prime-time strength begin to weaken this season.
 
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