Working in circulation against the flow (9)

I believe the answer is:

upcurrent

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'working in circulation against the flow' is the definition.
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'working in circulation against the flow' is the wordplay.
'working in circulation' becomes 'up' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'against' says to put letters next to each other.
'the flow' becomes 'current' (synonyms).
'up'+'current'='UPCURRENT'

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