Rake It In Meaning

Example : 2008, The Observer, 5 Oct 08:  Budget hotels are raking it in as business people feel the crunch.2006, The Guardian, 12 Aug 06:  Alas, geriatrics and convalescent homes, however regal, don't rake it in like moneyed metrosexuals.1997, Stanley Lombardo, tr. Homer, The Iliad, p. 169:  I've [...] Looted them all, brought back heirlooms / By the ton, and handed it all over / To Atreus' son, who hung back in camp / Raking it in and distributing damn little.