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Salute engineers and get out (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

greet

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'salute' is the definition.
(I know that salute is a more specific form of greet)

'engineers and get out' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'engineers' could be 're' (Royal Engineers) and 're' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'get' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for greet that I've seen before include "Make welcome" , "Say hello, hail" , "Hail, salute" , "Meet and salute" , "Address on arrival, say hello" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror.
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