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Debt rate can be beaten (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

battered

'beaten' is the definition.
(battering is a kind of beating)

'debt rate can be' is the wordplay.
'can be' is an anagram indicator.
'debt'+'rate'='debtrate'
'debtrate' anagrammed gives 'BATTERED'.

(Other definitions for battered that I've seen before include "Bashed" , "Beaten-up, knocked about" , "Struck violently and repeatedly" , "Buffeted" , "Injured; like fried fish" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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