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Encountered rising sound working in office for a while? (7)

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I believe the answer is:

temping

'working in office for a while?' is the definition.
(working as a temp)

'encountered rising sound' is the wordplay.
'encountered' becomes 'met' ('meet' can be a synonym of 'encounter').
'rising' shows that the letters should be reversed in order (going up in a down clue).
'sound' becomes 'ping' (ping is a kind of sound).
'met' back-to-front is 'tem'.
'tem'+'ping'='TEMPING'

(Another definition for temping that I've seen is " Way of working".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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