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Individual cut, minimal amount of money (3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sou

'minimal amount of money' is the definition.
(sou can mean a very small amount of money)

'individual cut' is the wordplay.
'individual' becomes 'soul' (as in 'not a soul').
'cut' means to remove the last letter.
'soul' with its final letter removed is 'SOU'.

(Other definitions for sou that I've seen before include "Former small French coin" , "almost worthless" , "Old French coin of little value" , "bit of money" , "16 French coin" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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