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Cooperate, using influence to pay back that woman (4,8)

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I believe the answer is:

pull together

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'cooperate' is the definition.
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'using influence to pay back that woman' is the wordplay.
'using influence' becomes 'pull' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'pay back' becomes 'get' ('get' can be a synonym of 'pay back').
'that woman' becomes 'her' (I've seen this before).
'pull'+'to'+'get'+'her'='PULL TOGETHER'

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(Another definition for pull together that I've seen is " Co-operate (at tug-of-war?)".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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