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Promotion? No - leave it out! (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

elevation

'promotion?' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'no leave it out' is the wordplay.
'out' indicates an anagram (out can mean wrong or inaccurate).
'no'+'leave'+'it'='noleaveit'
'noleaveit' with letters rearranged gives 'ELEVATION'.

(Other definitions for elevation that I've seen before include "Diagram" , "Drawing of the external face of a building" , "high ground" , "Height - a live note (anag)" , "Height above a given level" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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