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Dee gets a day's work, back in disgrace (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

degrade

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'disgrace' is the definition.
(I know that disgrace can be written as degrade)

'dee gets a day's work back' is the wordplay.
'gets' is an insertion indicator (gets can mean captures or absorbs).
'a day's work' becomes 'darg' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'back' says the letters should be written backwards.
'darg' reversed gives 'grad'.
'dee' enclosing 'grad' is 'DEGRADE'.

'in' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for degrade that I've seen before include "Reduce in status or rank" , "Lower the quality of (something)" , "Demean, cheapen" , "Shame" , "Break down, deteriorate" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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