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Kicked off meeting after feeling a monkish vocation (6,2,5)

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called to order

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'after feeling a monkish vocation' is the definition.
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'kicked off' is the wordplay.
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'kicked off' could be 'led' (both can mean opened or began with) and 'led' is present in the answer.
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'meeting' is the link.

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