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Number one priority is always track events for starters (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

opiate

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'number' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?

'one priority is always track events for starters' is the wordplay.
'for starters' indicates taking the first letters.
The first letters of 'one priority is always track events' is 'OPIATE'.

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(Other definitions for opiate that I've seen before include "It induces sleep" , "A sedative drug" , "A poet I become on this drug" , "one soporific" , "Type of drug" .)

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