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Reduce high rent with a cut (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

truncate

'reduce' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'high rent with a cut' is the wordplay.
'high' indicates an anagram (can mean drunk or on drugs and hence disordered).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'a'+'cut'='acut'
'rent' after 'acut' is 'acutrent'.
'acutrent' anagrammed gives 'TRUNCATE'.

(Other definitions for truncate that I've seen before include "Dock" , "Make shorter by cutting off" , "Lop" , "Cut short" , "Shorten by cutting off the top" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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