Terrible regrets about English welcoming people (8)

I believe the answer is:

greeters

'welcoming people' is the definition.

'terrible regrets about english' is the wordplay.
'terrible' indicates anagramming the letters.
'about' indicates putting letters inside.
'english' becomes 'e' (abbreviation).
'regrets' anagrammed gives 'greetrs'.
'greetrs' going around 'e' is 'GREETERS'.

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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