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Rising corporation poaching American banker's design (3,3)

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I believe the answer is:

map out

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'design' is the definition.
(I know that map out is a more specific form of the action design)

'rising corporation poaching american banker's' is the wordplay.
'rising' says the letters should be written backwards (in a down clue, letters go up).
'corporation' becomes 'tum' ('corporation' can humorously mean belly fat).
'poaching' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'american banker's' becomes 'opa' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'tum' enclosing 'opa' is 'tuopam'.
'tuopam' reversed gives 'MAP OUT'.

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(Other definitions for map out that I've seen before include "Plan" , "Arrange in detail" , "sketch" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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