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About time faulty device is thrown out (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

evicted

'is thrown out' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'about time faulty device' is the wordplay.
'about' indicates putting letters inside.
'time' becomes 't' (abbreviation).
'faulty' indicates an anagram.
'device' anagrammed gives 'eviced'.
't' put into 'eviced' is 'EVICTED'.

(Other definitions for evicted that I've seen before include "Put out" , "Expelled from property" , "Ousted" , "Ejected from a property" , "turned out" .)

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