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Force people to leave Takeaway (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

evacuate

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'leave takeaway' is the definition.
'evacuate' can be an answer for 'leave' (thesaurus). I am not certain of the 'takeaway' bit.

'force people' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'force' could be 'e' (E is the symbol of electromotive force) and 'e' is found within the answer.
The remaining letters 'vacuate' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

'to' acts as a link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for evacuate that I've seen before include "Withdraw from (a place)" , "Make people leave a dangerous location" , "Move people from their homes" , "flee" , "Remove from a place of danger" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times.
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