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Women tend to develop talent (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

endowment

'talent' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'women tend to develop' is the wordplay.
'to develop' indicates an anagram.
'women'+'tend'='womentend'
'womentend' is an anagram of 'ENDOWMENT'.

(Other definitions for endowment that I've seen before include "A bequest of funding" , "Personal quality - type of mortgage" , "Natural talent -- won't emend (anag)" , "Bequeathed income" , "Income/property settled on person/institution" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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