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Woman’s success if adopting a left-wing stance (8)

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I believe the answer is:

winifred

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'stance' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'woman's success if adopting a left-wing' is the wordplay.
'woman' becomes 'w' (abbreviation eg in Woman Police Constable).
'success' becomes 'ni' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'adopting' indicates putting letters inside.
'a left wing' becomes 'red' (I've seen this in other clues).
'ni' inserted inside 'if' is 'inif'.
'w'+'inif'+'red'='WINIFRED'

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(Other definitions for winifred that I've seen before include "Woman" , "Female name" .)

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