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Political label curtailed (3)

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I believe the answer is:

lab

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'political label' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't understand how one could define the other.

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(Other definitions for lab that I've seen before include "Scientists' workplace" , "Room for scientist" , "SECOND PART OF 15" , "Research workroom" , "biology classroom?" .)

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