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Work with someone managing to secure zero energy charge (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

cooperate

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'secure zero energy charge' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with social activities as well as being verbs in their base form.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?

'work with someone managing' is the wordplay.
'work' becomes 'cooper' (coopering is a kind of working).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'someone managing' becomes 'ate' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'cooper'+'ate'='COOPERATE'

'to' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for cooperate that I've seen before include "Work with another, be helpful" , "getting act together" , "Work to the same end" , "Help" , "band together" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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