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Name a centre of development out East (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

terence

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'name' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?

'a centre of development out east' is the wordplay.
'of development' is an anagram indicator (I've seen 'development' mean this).
'out' is an insertion indicator.
'east' becomes 'e' (synonyms).
'centre' anagrammed gives 'ternce'.
'ternce' placed around 'e' is 'TERENCE'.

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(Other definitions for terence that I've seen before include "Stamp" , "Ancient Latin poet" , "old comic" , "guy" , "A man" .)

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