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Corrupt CEO's money essentially seized - revealing promise of more for less (7-4)

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economy-size

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'promise of more for less' is the definition.
The definition suggests a verb in its base form which matches the answer.

'corrupt ceo's money essentially seized' is the wordplay.
'corrupt' is an anagram indicator (a corrupted form).
'essentially' means to look at the middle letters.
The centre of 'seized' is 'iz'.
'ceos'+'money'+'iz'='ceosmoneyiz'
'ceosmoneyiz' anagrammed gives 'ECONOMY-SIZE'.

'revealing' acts as a link.

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