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Taken for a ride? (6)

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'taken for a ride?' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this definition defines the answer.

'taken for a ride?' is the wordplay.
'taken' becomes 'n' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'for' means one lot of letters go next to another (I've seen this in other clues).
'a ride?' becomes 'drive' ('drive' can be a synonym of 'ride').
'n' after 'drive' is 'DRIVEN'.

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(Other definitions for driven that I've seen before include "Forced, compelled" , "Highly motivated (informal)" , "(Psychologically) impelled" , "Given a lift" , "Propelled like a hard bargain" .)

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