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Apartment building with temporary accommodation sheltering European chaps (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tenement

'apartment building' is the definition.
(tenement is a kind of apartment building)

'temporary accommodation sheltering european chaps' is the wordplay.
'temporary accommodation' becomes 'tent' (I've seen this before).
'sheltering' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'european' becomes 'e' (abbreviation e.g. EU).
'chaps' becomes 'men' (I've seen this before).
'e'+'men'='emen'
'tent' placed around 'emen' is 'TENEMENT'.

'with' is the link.

(Other definitions for tenement that I've seen before include "Self-contained room or set of rooms" , "Run-down house for many people" , "Rundown house with many occupants" , "Holding" , "Undesirable housing" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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