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Rhetoric men associated with one like Disraeli (7)

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I believe the answer is:

oratory

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'rhetoric' is the definition.
(both can mean formal speech)

'men associated with one like disraeli' is the wordplay.
'men' becomes 'OR' (military abbreviation for Other Ranks).
'associated' becomes 'a' (this could be a standard abbreviation which I don't know about).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'one like disraeli' becomes 'Tory' (Benjamin Disraeli was a Tory politician).
'or'+'a'+'tory'='ORATORY'

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(Other definitions for oratory that I've seen before include "Cicero's art" , "devotional space" , "Small chapel for private worship" , "speech day's main feature?" , "Gift of the gab" .)

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