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Exploit male pole dancing? Yes! (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

employ

'exploit' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'male pole dancing? yes' is the wordplay.
'male' becomes 'm' (common abbreviation).
'dancing?' is an anagram indicator.
'yes' becomes 'y'.
'm'+'pole'='mpole'
'mpole' is an anagram of 'emplo'.
'emplo'+'y'='EMPLOY'

(Other definitions for employ that I've seen before include "Take on - recruit" , "Take into service" , "Give paid work to" , "Make use of" , "Draw on" .)

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