The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word RENEGUE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result RENEGUE
- Fail to deliver green recycling by European Union retrospectively
- Go back on promise; EU manufacturing cut by 50% in recession
- Go back to EU, generally friendless in retreat
- Deny Frenchman visitor, no saint
- Rebel, missing a degree, must get posh instead or fail to fulfil promise
- The beginnings of renegotiation has EU backtrack – call off deal
- Unusual green with bend close to hole — and ditch
- Go back on serving Neera endlessly to half the guests
- Deny Green's faltering and beginning to use drug
- Go back on a promise to run away after a green transformation in the middle of a French street
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What does RENEGUE mean?
RENEGUE verb- To break a promise or commitment; to go back on one's word.
- In a card game, to break one's commitment to follow suit when capable.
- To deny; to renounce