No pilau pot dish for all the people (10)

I believe the answer is:

population

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'the people' is the definition.
(population is a kind of people)

'no pilau pot dish' is the wordplay.
'dish' indicates an anagram (dish can informally mean to destroy).
'no'+'pilau'+'pot'='nopilaupot'
'nopilaupot' is an anagram of 'POPULATION'.

'for all' is the link.
This may not be correct. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.

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(Another definition for population that I've seen is " inhabitants".)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times (Crosaire) and The Irish Times.

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