Cryptic crossword clue
Held back battered, neglected male for one 6

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word GENDER

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The straight part
We know that "male for one" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case male for one = gender.
The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does GENDER mean?

GENDER noun
  1. Class; kind.
  2. (grammar) A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like neuter or common, and animate or inanimate.
  3. (now sometimes proscribed) Sex (a category such as "male" or "female" into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species).
  4. Identification as a man, a woman or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc; a category to which a person belongs on this basis. (Compare gender role, gender identity.)
  5. (hardware) The quality which distinguishes connectors, which may be male (fitting into another connector) and female (having another connector fit into it), or genderless/androgynous (capable of fitting together with another connector of the same type).
GENDER verb
  1. To assign a gender to (a person); to perceive as having a gender; to address using terms (pronouns, nouns, adjectives...) that express a certain gender.
  2. To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.
GENDER noun
  1. Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character
  2. Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.
  3. The tone or sound emitted by an object
  4. The faculty or power of utterance
  5. That which is communicated; message; meaning.
  6. An expressed opinion, choice, will, desire, or wish; the right or ability to make such expression or to have it considered
  7. Command; precept.
  8. One who speaks; a speaker.
  9. A particular style or way of writing that expresses a certain tone or feeling.
  10. (grammar) A particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.
  11. In harmony, an independent vocal or instrumental part in a piece of composition.
  12. (IRC) A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether or not they can send messages to the channel.
GENDER verb
  1. To engender.
  2. To breed.

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