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Encountered holding a big corrupted unit of data (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

megabit

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'unit of data' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.

'encountered holding a big corrupted' is the wordplay.
'encountered' becomes 'met' ('meet' can be a synonym of 'encounter').
'holding' is an insertion indicator.
'corrupted' indicates an anagram.
'a'+'big'='abig'
'abig' anagrammed gives 'gabi'.
'met' placed around 'gabi' is 'MEGABIT'.

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(Other definitions for megabit that I've seen before include "a lot of information needed" , "Amount of data used by computer" , "computing unit" , "Unit of data size" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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