The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word CHURN
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More clues leading to the result CHURN
- Half of church service makes you heave
- Dairy can compete henceforth, utilising recent negotiations initially
- Agitate Chinese vessel
- Vessel in Switzerland’s slightly useless navy
- There may be agitation in this church needing tea-making facility
- Central heating container is to boil
- After endless fish, sailors are agitated
- Check container vessel
- Stir cold and hot water in this?
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The straight part
We know that "heave" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case heave = churn.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does CHURN mean?
CHURN noun- A vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter.
- Customer attrition; the phenomenon or rate of customers leaving a company.
- The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider.
- The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers.
- Cyclic activity that achieves nothing.
- To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.
- To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion.
- To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake.
- (of a customer) To stop using a company's product or service.
- (travel) To repeatedly cancel and rebook a reservation in order to refresh ticket time limits or other fare rule restrictions.
- (travel) To continually sign up for new credit cards in order to earn signup bonuses, airline miles, and other benefits.