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Put outside theatre or inside? (11)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

preposition

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'inside?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how one could define the other.

'put outside theatre' is the wordplay.
'put' becomes 'position' (positioning is a kind of putting).
'outside' indicates putting letters inside (some letters go outside others).
'theatre' becomes 'rep' (repertory theatre).
'position' going around 'rep' is 'PREPOSITION'.

'or' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for preposition that I've seen before include "Part of speech" , "One is in" , ""Before" or "after", say" , "Word like after or for (grammar)" , "Possibly in" .)

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