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Chaos having refurbished ranch within a year (7)

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I believe the answer is:

anarchy

'chaos' is the definition.
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'refurbished ranch within a year' is the wordplay.
'refurbished' indicates an anagram.
'within' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'year' becomes 'y'.
'ranch' with letters rearranged gives 'narch'.
'a'+'y'='ay'
'narch' placed within 'ay' is 'ANARCHY'.

'having' is the link.

(Other definitions for anarchy that I've seen before include "Society without government or law, chaos" , "Complete absence of law" , "General disorder" , "Collapse of order, rule" , "State of lawlessness and disorder" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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