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Get money from, quietly, with thanks (3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tap

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'get' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with communicating as well as being verbs in their base form.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'money from quietly with thanks' is the wordplay.
'money' becomes 'p'.
'from' suggests deleting specific letters.
'quietly' becomes 'pp' (musical abbreviation for pianissimo).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'thanks' becomes 'ta' (UK informal version of 'thank you').
'pp' after 'ta' is 'tapp'.
'tapp' with 'p' taken out is 'TAP'.

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(Other definitions for tap that I've seen before include "that's less hard than 11 [BASH] or 22 [BATTER]" , "Gentle stroke" , "Thread cutter; strike" , "Draw upon Pat" , "Knock lightly; a valve" .)

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