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Disciple gets a job with the French (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

apostle

'disciple' is the definition.
(the apostles were disciples of Jesus)

'a job with the french' is the wordplay.
'job' becomes 'post' (post is a kind of job).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'the french' becomes 'le' ('the' in French).
'a'+'post'+'le'='APOSTLE'

'gets' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for apostle that I've seen before include "St James, for example" , "Champion - one of twelve" , "Thaddeus, perhaps" , "Maybe Peter" , "Peter, perhaps" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Independent.
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