The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word PARODY
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More clues leading to the result PARODY
- Make fun of staff breaking into earnings
- Fork out to cover staff burlesque
- Staff cutting wages is a travesty
- Take off staff affected by pay squeeze
- Imitation stick spearing foot
- Remuneration restricts staff — it’s a travesty
- Take off staff with salary protection
- Take off and settle round pole
- Travesty as salary is split by staff
- Stick in front of plane certainly for take-off
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What does PARODY mean?
PARODY noun- A work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony.
- A popular maxim, adage, or proverb.
- To make a parody of something.