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Verbal agreement resulting in promotion (6)

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I believe the answer is:

ascent

'promotion' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'verbal agreement' is the wordplay.
'verbal' shows a homophone (sound like).
'agreement' becomes 'assent' (assent is a kind of agreement).
'assent' is a homophone of 'ASCENT'.

'resulting in' is the link.

(Other definitions for ascent that I've seen before include "Hill" , "Enacts in climb" , "An up-slope" , "advancement" , "made by Hilary and Tenzing" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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