Thief working separately without pay (7)

I believe the answer is:

stealer

'thief' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'working separately without pay' is the wordplay.
'working' indicates anagramming the letters.
'without' is a deletion indicator.
'separately' with 'pay' removed is 'seratel'.
'seratel' is an anagram of 'STEALER'.

(Another definition for stealer that I've seen is " Criminal".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.

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