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New recruit that is taken from castle (4)

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I believe the answer is:

rook

'castle' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'new recruit that is taken' is the wordplay.
'new recruit' becomes 'rookie' (I've seen this before).
'that is' becomes 'ie' ('i.e.' can be a synonym of 'that is').
'taken' suggests deleting specific letters.
'rookie' with 'ie' taken away is 'ROOK'.

'from' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for rook that I've seen before include "Gregarious crow" , "Rip off - bird" , "man in marginalised position, initially" , "Defraud; bird; chessman" , "Use deceit to get money" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror.
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