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Hire mercenaries primarily: double shifts for construction company (11)

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I believe the answer is:

homebuilder

'construction company' is the definition.

'hire mercenaries primarily double shifts' is the wordplay.
'primarily' says to take the initial letters.
'shifts' indicates anagramming the letters.
The initial letter of 'mercenaries' is 'm'.
'hire'+'m'+'double'='hiremdouble'
'hiremdouble' is an anagram of 'HOMEBUILDER'.

'for' acts as a link.

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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