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Mean lass upset one taking orders (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

salesman

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'one taking orders' is the definition.
The answer is a person as well as being a singular noun. This is suggested by the definition.

'mean lass upset' is the wordplay.
'upset' is an anagram indicator.
'mean'+'lass'='meanlass'
'meanlass' is an anagram of 'SALESMAN'.

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(Other definitions for salesman that I've seen before include "Arthur Miller wrote 'Death of a . . . . . . . .'" , "He's a vendor" , "He sells lean mass, strangley" , "He sells lean mass, oddly" , "Travelling rep" .)

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