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Name-calling at end of business meeting (11)

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I believe the answer is:

convocation

'meeting' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'name-calling at end of business' is the wordplay.
'name' becomes 'n' (common abbreviation e.g. on forms).
'calling' becomes 'vocation' ('vocation' can be a synonym of 'calling'**).
'at end of' says to put letters next to each other.
'business' becomes 'co'.
'n'+'vocation'='nvocation'
'nvocation' put after 'co' is 'CONVOCATION'.

(Another definition for convocation that I've seen is " assembly".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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