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Inhibit moving in of French scholar (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

student

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'scholar' is the definition.
(I know that scholar can be written as student)

'inhibit moving in of french' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'of french' could be 'de' ('of' in French) and 'de' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'stunt' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for student that I've seen before include "Trainee" , "Learner, pupil" , "collegian" , "A learner as at school" , "Scholar" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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