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50% more copying farmwork (7)

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I believe the answer is:

reaping

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'farmwork' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'50% more copying' is the wordplay.
'50% more' becomes 're' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'copying' becomes 'aping' ('ape' can be a synonym of 'copy').
're'+'aping'='REAPING'

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(Other definitions for reaping that I've seen before include "Harvesting" , "gathering" .)

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