The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word SITTING
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result SITTING
- Meeting involves computers in police operation
- Being portrayed as smart about use of computers
- Italian in pain having a rest?
- Session singer possesses that certain something
- Appropriate to go topless following start of sunny session
- Hearing and seeing red piano going
- Smart, holding it while in a chair
- Session that could be of a standing committee!
- Session: pain hosting it
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The straight part
We know that "Hearing" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case hearing = sitting.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does SITTING mean?
SITTING noun- A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.
- A special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, etc.
- The part of the year in which judicial business is transacted.
- A legislative session (in the sense of "meeting", not "period").
- The incubation of eggs by a bird.
- A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird.
- Uninterrupted application to anything for a time; the period during which one continues at anything.
- (of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks.
- (of a person) To move oneself into such a position.
- (of an object) To occupy a given position permanently.
- To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.
- To be a member of a deliberative body.
- Of a legislative or, especially, a judicial body such as a court, to be in session.
- To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh.
- To be adjusted; to fit.
- (of an agreement or arrangement) To be accepted or acceptable; to work.
- (causative) To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to.
- To accommodate in seats; to seat.
- To babysit.
- To take, to undergo or complete (an examination or test).
- To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.
- To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of oneself made, such as a picture or a bust.
- To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
- Executed from a sitting position.
- Occupying a specific official or legal position; incumbent.