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Region seeing a listener finally getting promoted (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

area

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'region' is the definition.
('area' can be a synonym of 'region')

'a listener finally getting promoted' is the wordplay.
'finally' indicates one should take the final letters.
'getting' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'promoted' becomes 'ea' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
The last letter of 'listener' is 'r'.
'a'+'r'+'ea'='AREA'

'seeing' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for area that I've seen before include "Extent of a two-dimensional surface" , "Part of a building, city etc" , "Locality" , "topic" , "Space occupied by something" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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