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Women avoiding regular payments for years (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ages

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

'women avoiding regular payments' is the wordplay.
'women' becomes 'w'.
'avoiding' is a deletion indicator.
'regular payments' becomes 'wages' (wage is a kind of regular payment).
'wages' with 'w' removed is 'AGES'.

'for' is the link.

(Other definitions for ages that I've seen before include "... of Man, according to WB Yeats" , "Awfully long time" , "Matures" , "Yonks" , "Epochs" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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