Confidential sign employed by executives (11)
I believe the answer is:
secretaries
'executives' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being plural nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'confidential sign employed by' is the wordplay.
'confidential' becomes 'secret' (synonyms).
'sign' becomes 'aries' (star sign).
'employed by' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'secret'+'aries'='SECRETARIES'
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