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Suggest I should fill job (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

posit

'suggest' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'i should fill job' is the wordplay.
'should fill' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'job' becomes 'post' (post is a kind of job).
'i' going inside 'post' is 'POSIT'.

(Other definitions for posit that I've seen before include "Suppose" , "Dispose" , "Put forward (something) as a given" , "Put forward (a theory)" , "Suggest" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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