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Men are not properly organised in a small unit (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

nanometre

'a small unit' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'men are not properly organised' is the wordplay.
'properly organised' indicates anagramming the letters.
'men'+'are'+'not'='menarenot'
'menarenot' with letters rearranged gives 'NANOMETRE'.

'in' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for nanometre that I've seen before include "A very small length" , "small unit" , "tiny distance" , "Some tiny measure" , "short distance" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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