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Giant production taking a hundred in the drama profession (6)

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I believe the answer is:

acting

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'the drama profession' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?

'giant production taking a hundred' is the wordplay.
'production' indicates an anagram.
'taking' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'a hundred' becomes 'C' (Roman numerals).
'giant' anagrammed gives 'ating'.
'ating' enclosing 'c' is 'ACTING'.

'in' is the link.

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(Other definitions for acting that I've seen before include "Interim" , "Behaving like thespian" , "Behaving in a certain way" , "putting it on" , "Performing in play" .)

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