The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word POSTDOC
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More clues leading to the result POSTDOC
- Graduate student’s job: physician
- Letters make opening of conversation academic
- Job cut not entirely doing for researcher
- At first, poor East German medic becomes an academic researcher
- Researcher‘s mail counter paid for on delivery
- Researcher coopts daughter for experiment
- Job on wharf ultimately insufficient for researcher
- Researcher has job over in Washington
- Send bones for research
- Fellow needs job to make a bit of cash
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The straight part
We know that "researcher" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case researcher = postdoc.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does POSTDOC mean?
POSTDOC noun- A postdoctoral academic research position.
- Someone in such a position.