Cryptic crossword clue
Tory authority's discounted in meeting 10

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word CONFLUENCE

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We know that "meeting" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case meeting = confluence.
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What does CONFLUENCE mean?

CONFLUENCE noun
  1. The place where two rivers, streams, or other continuously flowing bodies of water meet and become one, especially where a tributary joins a river.
  2. The act of combining which occurs at the place where rivers and the lake meet.
  3. A convergence or combination of forces, people, or things.
  4. The proportion of cells, in a culture medium, that adhere to each other
  5. In rewriting systems, property describing which terms can be rewritten with other, equivalent terms.

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