Crossword Genius

Suggest tossing out staple (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

postulate

'suggest' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'tossing out staple' is the wordplay.
'tossing' indicates an anagram.
'out'+'staple'='outstaple'
'outstaple' anagrammed gives 'POSTULATE'.

(Other definitions for postulate that I've seen before include "Let sap out in order to claim something" , "Assume as axiom" , "Suppose" , "That which is assumed" , "Put forward" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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