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Urges bullies to leave work (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

presses

'urges' is the definition.
('press' can be a synonym of 'urge')

'bullies to leave work' is the wordplay.
'bullies' becomes 'oppresses'.
'to leave' indicates named letters should be taken away.
'work' becomes 'op' (abbreviation for opus).
'oppresses' with 'op' removed is 'PRESSES'.

(Other definitions for presses that I've seen before include "Pushes" , "Machines to extract, eg, olive oil" , "Machines for printing" , "Irons" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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