Anticipating the collapse of store in subsidence (12)
I believe the answer is:
forestalling
'anticipating' is the definition.
('forestall' can be a synonym of 'anticipate')
'collapse of store in subsidence' is the wordplay.
'collapse of' indicates an anagram.
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'subsidence' becomes 'falling' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'store' is an anagram of 'orest'.
'orest' going within 'falling' is 'FORESTALLING'.
'the' is the link.
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