The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word UNIFORM
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result UNIFORM
- College class’s prescribed clothing
- Outfit for the tango follower?
- Always the same, educational document?
- Outfit college introduces for head of maths
- Costume seen immediately following tango?
- Regular place to study protocol
- Dull college class
- The same two places to find students
- Even reluctant pupils may be forced to wear it
- Regular college student group
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The straight part
We know that "Regular" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case regular = uniform.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 UNIFORM mean?
UNIFORM noun- A distinctive outfit that serves to identify members of a group.
- Phonetic equivalent for the letter U in the ICAO spelling alphabet, informally known as the NATO phonetic alphabet.
- A uniformed police officer (as opposed to a detective).
- To clothe in a uniform.
- Unvarying; all the same.
- Consistent; conforming to one standard.
- With speed of convergence not depending on choice of function argument; as in uniform continuity, uniform convergence
- (of a polymer) Composed of a single macromolecular species.
- (of a polyhedron) That is isogonal and whose faces are regular polygons; (of an n-dimensional (n>3) polytope) that is isogonal and whose bounding (n-1)-dimensional facets are uniform polytopes.