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Mandarin, endless stream, a curate translated (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

bureaucrat

'mandarin' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'endless stream a curate translated' is the wordplay.
'endless' means to remove the last letter.
'stream' becomes 'burn' (a burn is a small stream).
'translated' indicates an anagram.
'burn' with its last letter removed is 'bur'.
'a'+'curate'='acurate'
'acurate' is an anagram of 'eaucrat'.
'bur'+'eaucrat'='BUREAUCRAT'

(Other definitions for bureaucrat that I've seen before include "Government official" , "Mandarin" , "Administrator" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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