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An officer is beginning to train one without special skills (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

generalist

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'train one without special skills' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'an officer is beginning to' is the wordplay.
'an officer' becomes 'general' (general officer is a kind of officer).
'beginning' says to take the initial letters.
The initial letter of 'to' is 't'.
'general'+'is'+'t'='GENERALIST'

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(Other definitions for generalist that I've seen before include "Non-specialist" , "All-rounder" , "Person with broad interests" , "Versatile ten [SCHOOLTEACHER]" .)

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