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Discharge English graduate before race (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

emanation

'discharge' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'english graduate before race' is the wordplay.
'english' becomes 'e' (abbreviation).
'graduate' becomes 'ma' (abbreviation for Master of Arts).
'before' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'race' becomes 'nation' (I've seen this before**).
'e'+'ma'+'nation'='EMANATION'

(Other definitions for emanation that I've seen before include "Issue" , "Something flowing out from a source" , "discharge" , "Something produced from a source" , "produce radioactive gas" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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