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Scale up in production for medicine (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

capsule

'medicine' is the definition.
(capsule is a kind of medicine)

'scale up in production' is the wordplay.
'in production' indicates anagramming the letters (I've seen this in other clues).
'scale'+'up'='scaleup'
'scaleup' with letters rearranged gives 'CAPSULE'.

'for' is the link.

(Other definitions for capsule that I've seen before include "Type of pill" , "Soluble case containing medicine" , "Small cylindrical case" , "Gelatine case for medicine" , "Gelatinous container with medicine inside" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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