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Give agent a chair for military update (6)

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I believe the answer is:

sitrep

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'a chair for military update' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I can't tell whether it can be defined by this definition.

'give agent' is the wordplay.
'give' becomes 'sit' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'agent' becomes 'rep' (short for representative).
'sit'+'rep'='SITREP'

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(Other definitions for sitrep that I've seen before include "Report on current position (colloq.)" , "in which officers take an interest?" , "Italian family prominent in fifteenth and sixteenth century (Lucrezia -)" , "account by military" .)

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