The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word LINO
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result LINO
- Around home see floor covering
- Series of personnel in office providing protection for board
- Nothing about old floor covering
- Love going around over alternative to carpet
- Floor covering useful in our houses
- Nothing up with ordinary floor covering
- Covering nothing up … nothing!
- See borders in floor covering
- Look around home – what’s on the floor?
- Nothing put back and nothing that may be laid down
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The straight part
We know that "floor covering" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case floor covering = lino.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does LINO mean?
LINO noun- An inexpensive waterproof covering used especially for floors, made from solidified linseed oil over a burlap or canvas backing, or from its modern replacement, polyvinyl chloride.
- An assistant referee.
- A male line judge.
- An official whose primary task is to watch the blue line and determine when there has been an offside.
- An official whose primary task is to determine whether there has been a line of scrimmage violation.
- A person employed to work on electrical lines; a lineman.
- A private in the line.