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Summoned for having emptied garbage in flat (5)

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I believe the answer is:

paged

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'summoned for' is the definition.
'paged' can be an answer for 'summoned' (paging is a kind of summoning). I am not certain of the 'for' bit.

'emptied garbage in flat' is the wordplay.
'emptied' suggests removing the centre.
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'flat' becomes 'pad' (a person's home).
'garbage' with its middle taken out is 'ge'.
'ge' placed into 'pad' is 'PAGED'.

'having' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for paged that I've seen before include "Called to phone" , "Called a name over a PA system" , "Called over a public address system" , "called by Speaker" , "Summoned over a PA system" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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