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Reassembled troops felt to keep united (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

regrouped

'reassembled' is the definition.
(assembled or grouped again)

'troops felt to keep united' is the wordplay.
'troops' becomes 're' (Royal Engineers army regiment).
'felt' becomes 'groped'.
'to keep' is an insertion indicator.
'united' becomes 'u'.
'groped' going around 'u' is 'grouped'.
're'+'grouped'='REGROUPED'

(Another definition for regrouped that I've seen is " Reassembled into sets".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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