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During meeting, start to employ one's discrimination (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ageism

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'discrimination' is the definition.
(ageism is a kind of discrimination)

'during meeting start to employ one's' is the wordplay.
'during' indicates putting letters inside.
'meeting' becomes 'agm' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'start to' says to take the initial letters.
'one's' becomes 'is' (Roman numeral).
The first letter of 'employ' is 'e'.
'e'+'is'='eis'
'agm' enclosing 'eis' is 'AGEISM'.

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(Other definitions for ageism that I've seen before include "Prejudice on grounds of advanced years" , "Prejudice in relation to advanced years" , "Discrimination e.g. against old people" , "Discrimination on grounds of age" , "Prejudice or bias against old people" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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