Provided with new conductors (7)
I believe the answer is:
rewired
'provided with new conductors' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with ownership as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'provided with new conductors' is the wordplay.
'provided with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'new' becomes 're' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'conductors' becomes 'wired' (wire is a kind of conductor).
're' put next to 'wired' is 'REWIRED'.
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