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With abandoning dubious ideals, war not waged? (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

salaried

'not waged?' is the definition.
(given a salary rather than a wage)

'with abandoning dubious ideals' is the wordplay.
'with' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'abandoning' becomes 'ar' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'dubious' indicates an anagram.
'ideals' anagrammed gives 'salied'.
'ar' placed inside 'salied' is 'SALARIED'.

'war' is the link.
I am not very happy about this link. It may belong to another bit of the clue.

(Other definitions for salaried that I've seen before include "Paid regularly" , "Earning a living" , "Paid monthly for work" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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