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Concerned with class - that's unusual in a lord (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ordinal

'concerned with class' is the definition.
(relating to an order or class in a system)

'unusual in a lord' is the wordplay.
'unusual' indicates an anagram.
'in'+'a'+'lord'='inalord'
'inalord' with letters rearranged gives 'ORDINAL'.

'that's' is the link.

(Other definitions for ordinal that I've seen before include "gives position in class" , "First, second, third etc." , "Denoting a numerical order in a series" , "Ranking number" , "Relating to series order" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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