The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word COG
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More clues leading to the result COG
- Investing finally following company projection
- Company takes on good employee who'll play small part
- One playing a small part in Scrooge regularly
- Impediment left out for lowly member of company?
- Minor person in organisation that engages with others in revolution
- Company’s good to unimportant employee, perhaps?
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The straight part
We know that "lowly member of company" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case lowly member of company = cog.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does COG mean?
COG noun- A tooth on a gear.
- A gear; a cogwheel.
- An unimportant individual in a greater system.
- A projection or tenon at the end of a beam designed to fit into a matching opening of another piece of wood to form a joint.
- One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
- To furnish with a cog or cogs.
- A ship of burden, or war with a round, bulky hull.
- A trick or deception; a falsehood.
- To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat.
- To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently.
- To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
- To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.
- A small fishing boat.
- A small round wooden vessel for holding milk.