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Highly intelligent person is after university employment (5)

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I believe the answer is:

usage

'employment' is the definition.
('usage' can be a synonym of 'employment')

'highly intelligent person is after university' is the wordplay.
'highly intelligent person' becomes 'sage'.
'is after' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'university' becomes 'u'.
'sage' after 'u' is 'USAGE'.

(Other definitions for usage that I've seen before include "Employment - practice" , "Acceptable language" , "Particular meaning of a word" , "Habit" , "Terminology - custom" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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