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Part of speech given at one by male, word for word (8)

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I believe the answer is:

verbatim

'word for word' is the definition.
('verbatim' can be a synonym of 'word for word')

'part of speech given at one by male' is the wordplay.
'part of speech' becomes 'verb' (verb is a kind of part of speech**).
'given' says to put letters next to each other.
'one' becomes 'i' (Roman numeral).
'by' says to put letters next to each other.
'male' becomes 'm' (common abbreviation).
'verb'+'at'+'i'+'m'='VERBATIM'

(Other definitions for verbatim that I've seen before include "Exactly the same words for brave Tim" , "Faithfully copied" , "literally)" , "Word for word" , "In exactly the words used" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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