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One of the numbers for church service

Ross

I believe the answer is:

air force

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'service' is the definition.
(air force is a kind of service)

'one of the numbers for church' is the wordplay.
'one of the numbers' becomes 'air' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'church' becomes 'ce' (abbreviation for Church of England).
'air'+'for'+'ce'='AIR FORCE'

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(Other definitions for air force that I've seen before include "Armed service" , "Simple tune for church service" , "Kind of blue" , "Junior service" , "Country's military planes" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times.
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