The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word COLOSSI
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result COLOSSI
- Great figures maybe exhaust and defeat one
- Monsters with poisonous gas defeat one
- Company deficit is not special – these are huge
- Powerful people defile old Schutzstaffel unit
- Firm has a deficit — one in large figures
- Huge statues: unfinished seconds, originally Italian
- Cost in currency reduced, great figures?
- Conservative lives alone in retreat for notables
- Big figures in firm, one going down after failure
- More than one giant company with negative balance sheet requiring investment to start
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The straight part
We know that "Big figures" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case big figures = colossi.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does COLOSSI mean?
COLOSSI noun- A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome and the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
- Any creature or thing of gigantic size.
- Somebody or something very greatly admired and respected.