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Fish out many a man to order (7)

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I believe the answer is:

command

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'to order' is the definition.
(I know that command is a more specific form of the action enjoin)

'fish out many a man' is the wordplay.
'fish' becomes 'cod' (type of fish).
'out' means to remove the last letter.
'many' becomes 'M' (Roman numeral for a thousand).
'a man' becomes 'mand' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'cod' with its final letter removed is 'co'.
'co'+'m'+'mand'='COMMAND'

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(Other definitions for command that I've seen before include "Bidding" , "Instruction, order" , "Authoritative order" , "Fiat" , "Order; dominate" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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