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Company lease housing male orderly (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

coherent

'orderly' is the definition.
('coherent' can be similar in meaning to 'orderly')

'company lease housing male' is the wordplay.
'company' becomes 'co' (abbreviation).
'lease' becomes 'rent' ('rent' can be a synonym of 'lease').
'housing' indicates putting letters inside.
'male' becomes 'he'.
'co'+'rent'='corent'
'corent' placed around 'he' is 'COHERENT'.

(Other definitions for coherent that I've seen before include "Sticking together" , "Not rambling in speech or reason" , "Logical and lucid" , "making sense" , "Holding together as a whole" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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