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Adjust nothing I provided in regular payment (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

orient

'adjust' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'nothing i provided in regular payment' is the wordplay.
'nothing' becomes 'o' (looks like zero - 0).
'provided in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'regular payment' becomes 'rent' (rent is a kind of regular payment).
'i' inserted within 'rent' is 'rient'.
'o'+'rient'='ORIENT'

(Other definitions for orient that I've seen before include "Famous express" , "Adjust to surroundings" , "Countries east of the Mediterranean" , "Rising earlier" , "Acquaint with position" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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