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Yet he has some standing at a meeting (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

chairman

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'yet he has some standing at a meeting' is the definition.
The answer is a person as well as being a singular noun. This is suggested by the definition.

'yet he' is the wordplay.
'yet' becomes 'chair' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'he' becomes 'man' (I've seen this in another clue).
'chair'+'man'='CHAIRMAN'

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(Other definitions for chairman that I've seen before include "Mao?" , "Sedentary male of a committee" , "Person in charge" , "Meeting leader" , "One in charge of a meeting" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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