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She finds local employment (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

barmaid

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'she' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'local employment' is the wordplay.
'local' becomes 'bar' (local can mean someone's local pub).
'employment' becomes 'maid' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'bar'+'maid'='BARMAID'

'finds' acts as a link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for barmaid that I've seen before include "Pub worker" , "Local girl" , "Female serving drinks" , "She serves drinks" , "serving lady" .)

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