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Making houses the French study with IT (1-8)

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e-learning

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'study with it' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.

'making houses the french' is the wordplay.
'making' becomes 'earning' ('earn' can be a synonym of 'make').
'houses' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'the french' becomes 'le' ('the' in French).
'earning' placed around 'le' is 'E-LEARNING'.

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