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Has a job marketing online family perhaps (6,9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

public relations

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'has a job marketing online' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'family perhaps' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'family' could be 'relations' (I've seen this before) and 'relations' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'public' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for public relations that I've seen before include "promotion" , "work for popular approval" , "Promotional department" , "Image-burnishing activity" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times (Crosaire) and the Irish Times.
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