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Time for voting for officer? (7,8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

general election

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'time' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't see how one could define the other.

'for voting for officer?' is the wordplay.
'for voting' becomes 'election' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'for' means one lot of letters go next to another (I've seen this in other clues).
'officer?' becomes 'general' (general officer is a kind of officer).
'election' after 'general' is 'GENERAL ELECTION'.

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(Other definitions for general election that I've seen before include "When all MPs are chosen" , "Poll" , "representative selection" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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