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Lead Civil Engineer, after promotion, getting rise (7)

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I believe the answer is:

advance

'rise' is the definition.
(advancing is a kind of rising)

'lead civil engineer after promotion' is the wordplay.
'lead' becomes 'van' (van is the leading part of a movement or group).
'civil engineer' becomes 'ce'.
'after' says to put letters next to each other.
'promotion' becomes 'ad' (short for advert).
'van'+'ce'='vance'
'vance' put after 'ad' is 'ADVANCE'.

'getting' is the link.

(Other definitions for advance that I've seen before include "Move forward like army or loan against wage" , "Move forward to get loan?" , "Make headway" , "Loan; promotion" , "Put forward (a theory)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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