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Long for multinational company to give them something juicy (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

pineapple

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'give them something juicy' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.

'long for multinational company' is the wordplay.
'long' becomes 'pine' (to pine for someone is to long for them).
'for' says to put letters next to each other.
'multinational company' becomes 'apple' (Apple is a technology company. I am not sure about the 'multinational' bit.).
'pine'+'apple'='PINEAPPLE'

'to' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for pineapple that I've seen before include "One may go off" , "Juicy tropical fruit or slang hand grenade" , "Fruit grown on ground" , "Fruit (tree and fruit!)" , "that might go off?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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