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Engineer may scorn radar, sonar, etc (8)

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acronyms

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'radar sonar etc' is the definition.
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'engineer may scorn' is the wordplay.
'engineer' is an anagram indicator.
'may'+'scorn'='mayscorn'
'mayscorn' with letters rearranged gives 'ACRONYMS'.

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(Other definitions for acronyms that I've seen before include "entities formed initially, one can say" , "Words made from the initials of others" , "Corny Sam makes words from first letters of other words" , "Words formed from the initials of others" , "Words made from first letters of other words" .)

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