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Chest carefully opened by volunteer (6)

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I believe the answer is:

coffer

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'chest' is the definition.
(I know that coffer is a type of chest)

'carefully opened by volunteer' is the wordplay.
'carefully opened' becomes 'c' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'by' says to put letters next to each other.
'volunteer' becomes 'offer' (synonyms).
'c'+'offer'='COFFER'

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(Other definitions for coffer that I've seen before include "jewellery store?" , "A large strong box for valuables" , "Treasure chest" , "safe" , "Money chest sounds like one with lung trouble" .)

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