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See alms distributed in disorder (7)

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I believe the answer is:

measles

'disorder' is the definition.
(measles is a kind of disease)

'see alms distributed' is the wordplay.
'distributed' indicates anagramming the letters.
'see'+'alms'='seealms'
'seealms' is an anagram of 'MEASLES'.

'in' is the link.

(Other definitions for measles that I've seen before include "Rubeola" , "Viral disease with rash" , "Highly contagious viral disease" , "Viral disease once common in children" , "Children's viral disease" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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