The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word BETRAYAL
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result BETRAYAL
- British fish and others around for shopping
- Risk money, a pound, after some light shopping?
- Barely treasonous at first, a criminal act that’s treasonous!
- Double-dealing drug carrier’s caught in abandoned lab
- Sell-out show unintentionally disheartened everybody
- Choice fish almost completely selling out
- Disloyalty in university mostly after letter about resistance
- Opinion shown by two men is breach of trust
- Old carrier left to absorb another one in bad faith
- Speculation before man left after a deception
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What does BETRAYAL mean?
BETRAYAL noun- The act of betraying