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Common rail experience without one to explain (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

translate

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'to explain' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'common rail experience without one' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'one' could be 'an' (an apple is one apple) and 'an' is found within the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for translate that I've seen before include "Switch language" , "shift" , "Convert" , "Explain" , "Change the language of (a text)" .)

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