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Finish employment at university (3,2)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

use up

'finish' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'employment at university' is the wordplay.
'employment' becomes 'use' ('use' can be a synonym of 'employment').
'at university' becomes 'up'.
'use'+'up'='USE UP'

(Other definitions for use up that I've seen before include "Consume (stocks)" , "Entirely consume" , "Expend" , "Exhaust (resources)" , "Finish, exhaust" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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