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Fare for reduction? (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

diet

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'fare for reduction?' is the definition.
'diet' can be an answer for 'fare' (thesaurus). I am unsure of the 'for reduction?' bit.

'fare for reduction?' is the wordplay.
'fare' becomes 'die' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'for' becomes 'to' (eg both can mean 'in the opinion of').
'reduction?' means to remove the last letter (I've seen 'reduction' mean this).
'to' with its last letter taken off is 't'.
'die'+'t'='DIET'

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for diet that I've seen before include "control weight" , "Slimming regime" , "Food plan" , "Worms had one" , "Food - parliament" .)

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