The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word PLUNDER
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result PLUNDER
- Sacking personnel extremely ready for operation?
- Place below rifle
- Starts to plague international body over the German spoils
- Spoils start of play, left below
- Place foreign articles in sack
- Place below will do for Rob
- Spoils half of plot on sedatives, perhaps
- Place Franco-German articles in sack
- Steal album to look up articles in French and German
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The straight part
We know that "Sacking" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case sacking = plunder.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 PLUNDER mean?
PLUNDER noun- An instance of plundering.
- The loot attained by plundering.
- Baggage; luggage.
- To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
- To take (goods) by pillage.
- To take by force or wrongfully; to commit robbery or looting, to raid.
- To make extensive (over)use of, as if by plundering; to use or use up wrongfully.
- To take unexpectedly.