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Professional needing conduit for cables, is charged for its fabrication (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

production

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'fabrication' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'professional needing conduit for cables' is the wordplay.
'professional' becomes 'pro' (abbreviation).
'needing' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'conduit' becomes 'duct' (duct is a kind of conduit).
'for cables' becomes 'ion' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'pro'+'duct'+'ion'='PRODUCTION'

'is charged for its' is the link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for production that I've seen before include "thing manufactured" , "numbers coming off line" , "drama, say" , "... making" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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