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Movement offering stupid proposal at meeting? (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

locomotion

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'movement' is the definition.
(locomotion is a kind of movement)

'proposal at meeting?' is the wordplay.
'proposal' becomes 'motion' (proposal at a meeting).
'at' says to put letters next to each other (I've seen this in other clues).
'meeting?' becomes 'loco' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'motion' put after 'loco' is 'LOCOMOTION'.

'offering stupid' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for locomotion that I've seen before include "It enables one to move" , "The power to move" , "Act of moving" , "Old dance" , "The power of movement" .)

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