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Give comments to an administrative trainee in revolutionary school (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

annotate

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'administrative trainee in revolutionary school' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.

'give comments to an' is the wordplay.
'give comments' becomes 'notate' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'to' means one lot of letters go next to another (I've seen this in other clues).
'notate' after 'an' is 'ANNOTATE'.

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(Other definitions for annotate that I've seen before include "Add notes to (text)" , "Supply explanatory notes" , "Add explanatory comments" , "Make notes upon" , "Add explanations and comments to (a text)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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