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Conflict interrupting commercial payment (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

award

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'payment' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?

'conflict interrupting commercial' is the wordplay.
'conflict' becomes 'war' (war is a kind of conflict).
'interrupting' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'commercial' becomes 'ad' (abbreviation for advertisement).
'war' placed into 'ad' is 'AWARD'.

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(Other definitions for award that I've seen before include "Give officially as prize or payment" , "Present - prize" , "Give, grant" , "Endow" , "Write up" .)

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