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English company clamour about minimum of money in budget (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

economise

'budget' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'english company clamour about minimum of money' is the wordplay.
'english' becomes 'e' (abbreviation).
'company' becomes 'co' (abbreviation).
'clamour' becomes 'noise' (I've seen this before**).
'about' is an insertion indicator.
'minimum of' indicates taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'money' is 'm'.
'noise' enclosing 'm' is 'nomise'.
'e'+'co'+'nomise'='ECONOMISE'

'in' is the link.

(Other definitions for economise that I've seen before include "budget" , "save?" , "make cuts" , "Keep down costs" , "cut costs" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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