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Heard officer fighting (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

martial

'fighting' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'heard officer' is the wordplay.
'heard' shows a homophone (sound like).
'officer' becomes 'marshal' (I've seen this before).
'marshal' is a homophone of 'MARTIAL'.

(Other definitions for martial that I've seen before include "Relating to the military" , "Warlike; Roman poet" , "Of war or the armed forces" , "Belligerent" , "Soldierly (arts?)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror.
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