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City worker finding flower damaged by river (11)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

stockbroker

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'city worker' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'flower damaged by river' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'flower' could be 'stock' (stock is a kind of flower) and 'stock' is found in the answer.
'damaged' could be 'broke' ('break' can be a synonym of 'damage') and 'broke' is found in the answer.
'river' could be 'r' (abbreviation) and 'r' is found within the answer.
No letters remain.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

'finding' is the link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for stockbroker that I've seen before include "Buyer and seller of securities for clients" , "Agent for buying and selling securities" .)

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