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European worried about soldier's discharge (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

emanate

'discharge' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'european worried about soldier's' is the wordplay.
'european' becomes 'e' (abbreviation e.g. EU).
'worried' becomes 'ate' (I've seen this before).
'about' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'soldier' becomes 'man' (I've seen this before**).
'ate' after 'man' is 'manate'.
'e'+'manate'='EMANATE'

(Other definitions for emanate that I've seen before include "Emerge or originate" , "Issue or originate from manatee" , "Come forth" , "Issue or spread out from a source" , "Send out" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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