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Daughter sent off for damages (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dents

'damages' is the definition.
(dent is a kind of damage)

'daughter sent off' is the wordplay.
'daughter' becomes 'd'.
'off' indicates an anagram.
'sent' with letters rearranged gives 'ents'.
'd'+'ents'='DENTS'

'for' is the link.

(Other definitions for dents that I've seen before include "Tends towards small depression" , "Tends towards small depressions" , "Tends to create small depressions" , "reductions in size" .)

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