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Hurry back to celebrate caring vocation (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

nursing

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'caring vocation' is the definition.
'nursing' can be an answer for 'vocation' (I have seen 'Medical vocation ' mean 'nursing' so perhaps 'vocation' could also mean 'nursing'). I'm not certain of the 'caring' bit.

'hurry back to celebrate' is the wordplay.
'hurry' becomes 'run' (running is a kind of hurrying).
'back' says the letters should be written backwards.
'to celebrate' becomes 'sing' (as in to sing someone's praises).
'run' written backwards gives 'nur'.
'nur'+'sing'='NURSING'

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(Other definitions for nursing that I've seen before include "now a graduate profession" , "Medical vocation" , "Caring career" , "Feeding baby" , "Caring profession" .)

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