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Almost nobody has time (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

noon

'time' is the definition.
(noon is a kind of time)

'almost nobody' is the wordplay.
'almost' means to remove the last letter (most of the word but not all of it).
'nobody' becomes 'no one' (not a single person).
'noone' with its last letter taken away is 'NOON'.

'has' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for noon that I've seen before include "when PM starts" , "Twelve o'clock in the day" , "12 pm" , "A moment of time" , "See 8" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish News.
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