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Economic blunder! Company lost receipts! (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

income

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'receipts' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'economic blunder company lost' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'company' could be 'com' (as in .com) and 'com' is found within the answer.
The remaining letters 'ine' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for income that I've seen before include "What do you make" , "Money received for work or from investment" , "Money from investments or for work" , "Money earned" , "Remunerations, takings" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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