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General deliveries a couple of Liberals assembled (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

overall

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'general' is the definition.
(similar in meaning)

'deliveries a couple of liberals assembled' is the wordplay.
'deliveries' becomes 'over' (I've seen this before).
'couple of' shows that letters should be duplicated.
'liberals assembled' becomes 'l' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'l' doubled is 'll'.
'over'+'a'+'ll'='OVERALL'

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(Other definitions for overall that I've seen before include "it protects clothes" , "Protective coat painters put on" , "All round" , "Dress for dirty work" , "On the whole - protective garment" .)

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