Awfully cosy when meeting power, hard workers who toady (10)

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sycophants

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'awfully cosy when meeting power hard workers who toady' is the definition.
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'awfully cosy when meeting power hard workers' is the wordplay.
'awfully' indicates an anagram.
'when meeting' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'power' becomes 'p' (symbol in physics).
'hard' becomes 'h' (abbreviation used in pencil classifications).
'workers' becomes 'ants' (worker ants).
'cosy' anagrammed gives 'syco'.
'syco'+'p'+'h'+'ants'='SYCOPHANTS'

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