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A night in France breaks into any kind of regular income (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

annuity

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'kind of regular income' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to property as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?

'a night in france breaks into any' is the wordplay.
'a night in france' becomes 'nuit'.
'breaks into' is an insertion indicator.
'nuit' going within 'any' is 'ANNUITY'.

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(Other definitions for annuity that I've seen before include "Form of investment" , "Yearly payment" , "Sum paid yearly" , "Yearly allowance" , "Regular income from a fund" .)

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