Cryptic crossword clue
Company in a mine being developed getting a lot of praise 7

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word ENCOMIA

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What does ENCOMIA mean?

ENCOMIA noun
  1. Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute.
  2. A general category of oratory.
  3. A method within rhetorical pedagogy.
  4. The eighth exercise in the progymnasmata series.
  5. A genre of literature that included five elements: prologue, birth and upbringing, acts of the person's life, comparisons used to praise the subject, and an epilogue.

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