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Webmail regularly dropped price in Dubai? (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

emirate

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

'webmail regularly dropped price' is the wordplay.
'regularly dropped' indicates alternate letters (letters dropped at regular intervals).
'price' becomes 'rate' (I've seen this before).
The alternate letters of 'webmail' are 'emi'.
'emi'+'rate'='EMIRATE'

'in' is the link.

(Other definitions for emirate that I've seen before include "An Arabian state, perhaps" , "Foreign office" , "Arab office" , "Muslim government" , "state forbidding alcohol?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.
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