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Commercial operation beginning to secure confessions (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

admissions

'confessions' is the definition.

'commercial operation beginning to secure' is the wordplay.
'commercial' becomes 'ad'.
'operation' becomes 'mission' (mission is a kind of operation**).
'beginning to' says to take the initial letters.
The initial letter of 'secure' is 's'.
'ad'+'mission'+'s'='ADMISSIONS'

(Other definitions for admissions that I've seen before include "Costs of entering" , "Acknowledgments" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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