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Understanding an address about workers (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

agreement

'understanding' is the definition.
(I know that understanding can be written as agreement)

'an address about workers' is the wordplay.
'an' becomes 'a'.
'address' becomes 'greet' (greeting is a kind of addressing).
'about' indicates putting letters inside.
'workers' becomes 'men' (men can mean staff or employees).
'greet' enclosing 'men' is 'greement'.
'a'+'greement'='AGREEMENT'

(Other definitions for agreement that I've seen before include "Correspondence" , "Union < matching" , "deal" , "Unlikely result" , "Pact" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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