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Meant to carry out the repair, for a change (9)

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I believe the answer is:

amendment

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'meant to carry' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'out the repair for a change' is the wordplay.
'out the repair' becomes 'ment' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'for' says to put letters next to each other (I've seen this in other clues).
'a change' becomes 'amend' (I've seen this before).
'ment' put after 'amend' is 'AMENDMENT'.

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(Other definitions for amendment that I've seen before include "Corrective treatment" , "Correction" , "Statement added to or revising a document" , "Addition or alteration, to a motion or official document, say" , "Minor improvement" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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