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Intended to have meagre time (5)

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I believe the answer is:

meant

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'intended' is the definition.
(to mean something is to intend it)

'meagre time' is the wordplay.
'meagre' becomes 'mean' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'time' becomes 't' (abbreviation).
'mean'+'t'='MEANT'

'to have' is the link.

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(Other definitions for meant that I've seen before include "Deliberate" , "planned" , "Had as intention or purpose" , "Implied" , "proposed" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror.
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