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Made chap uniform with fur -- cadet's staggered (12)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

manufactured

'made' is the definition.
(manufacturing is a kind of making)

'chap uniform with fur cadet's staggered' is the wordplay.
'chap' becomes 'man' (I've seen this before**).
'uniform' becomes 'u' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'staggered' indicates an anagram.
'fur'+'cadet'='furcadet'
'furcadet' is an anagram of 'factured'.
'man'+'u'+'factured'='MANUFACTURED'

(Another definition for manufactured that I've seen is " Made".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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