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Good incentive taken up to employ individual adults (5-3)

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I believe the answer is:

grown-ups

'adults' is the definition.
(grown-up is a kind of adult)

'good incentive taken up to employ individual' is the wordplay.
'good' becomes 'g' (abbreviation).
'incentive' becomes 'spur' (I've seen this before).
'taken up' says the letters should be written in reverse.
'to employ' indicates putting letters inside.
'individual' becomes 'own'.
'spur' in reverse letter order is 'rups'.
'rups' going around 'own' is 'rownups'.
'g'+'rownups'='GROWN-UPS'

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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