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Turncoat given a job at head of enterprise (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

apostate

'turncoat' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'a job at head of enterprise' is the wordplay.
'job' becomes 'post' (post is a kind of job).
'head of' says to take the initial letters.
The initial letter of 'enterprise' is 'e'.
'a'+'post'+'at'+'e'='APOSTATE'

'given' is the link.

(Other definitions for apostate that I've seen before include "Turncoat" , "One no longer believing" , "Someone who abandons a belief" , "Person abandoning their religion" , "Religious renouncer" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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