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Professor shares unopened gifts (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

donations

'gifts' is the definition.
(I know this)

'professor shares unopened' is the wordplay.
'professor' becomes 'don' (term for a university professor).
'shares' becomes 'rations' (ration is a kind of share).
'unopened' means to remove the first letter (the opening of the word is removed).
'rations' with its initial letter removed is 'ations'.
'don'+'ations'='DONATIONS'

(Other definitions for donations that I've seen before include "Gifts" , "Contributions" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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