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Cultivated place for money holder generation (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tillage

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'cultivated place' 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?

'money holder generation' is the wordplay.
'money holder' becomes 'till' (I've seen this in another clue).
'generation' becomes 'age' (I've seen this in another clue).
'till'+'age'='TILLAGE'

'for' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for tillage that I've seen before include "Husbandry" , "Farmers undertake it" , "Agricultural work" , "Spadework" , "Arable land worked by ploughing" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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