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Office where person devises sentences using specific dictionary? (8)

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I believe the answer is:

chambers

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'dictionary?' is the definition.
(dictionary publisher)

'office where person devises sentences using specific' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'person' could be 'ham' (ham is a kind of person) and 'ham' is found within the answer.
The remaining letters 'cbers' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for chambers that I've seen before include "Judge's room - dictionary" , "Set of rooms as for judge" , "vaults" , "Rooms for the judge and dictionary" , "Judge's room for hearing cases in private" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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