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Military HQ gets artifical intelligence to the Reserve Bank's leading economist (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

airbase

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'artifical intelligence to the reserve bank's leading economist' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether it can be defined by this definition.

'military hq' is the wordplay.
'military' becomes 'air' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'hq' becomes 'base' (I've seen this before).
'air'+'base'='AIRBASE'

'gets' is the link.

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(Other definitions for airbase that I've seen before include "hardly a no-fly zone" , "military unit" , "military use it" , "Where one may see fighter pilots" , "Hurricanes may come from this" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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