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Course to urge stongly about company return (7)

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I believe the answer is:

process

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'course' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'stongly about company return' is the wordplay.
'stongly' becomes 'press' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'about' is an insertion indicator.
'company' becomes 'co' (abbreviation).
'return' says the letters should be written in reverse.
'co' back-to-front is 'oc'.
'press' enclosing 'oc' is 'PROCESS'.

'to urge' acts as a link.
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(Other definitions for process that I've seen before include "Advance ceremoniously" , "Deal with in a routine way" , "that's the course of action" , "Series of actions with a single purpose" , "move in train" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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