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Abroad for a long time due to lack of services (7)

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I believe the answer is:

outages

'lack of services' is the definition.
(an outage is when a service is unavailable)

'abroad for a long time' is the wordplay.
'abroad' becomes 'out' (abroad can mean away or out).
'for' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'a long time' becomes 'ages' (ages can mean a very long time).
'out'+'ages'='OUTAGES'

'due to' acts as a link.

(Another definition for outages that I've seen is " power failures".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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