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Cheap travel mostly expensive — great anger (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

steerage

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'cheap travel' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?

'mostly expensive great anger' is the wordplay.
'mostly' means to remove the last letter (most but not all of the word).
'expensive' becomes 'steep' (I've seen this in another clue).
'great anger' becomes 'rage' (I've seen this before).
'steep' with its final letter taken off is 'stee'.
'stee'+'rage'='STEERAGE'

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(Other definitions for steerage that I've seen before include "Cheap seats" , "Densely-packed travellers here" , "Cheap part of ship" , "cheap way to travel" , "Ship's accommodation with lowest fares" .)

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