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Engineer got layout that's absolutely true (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tautology

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'absolutely true' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't see how one could define the other.

'engineer got layout' is the wordplay.
'engineer' is an anagram indicator.
'got'+'layout'='gotlayout'
'gotlayout' is an anagram of 'TAUTOLOGY'.

'that's' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for tautology that I've seen before include "identifying myself personally?" , "Repetition in different words for a gouty lot" , "as new innovation, perhaps" , "Use of words repeating something already implied" , "Unnecessary repetition of words" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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