European plug stopping phone receiving text (7)
I believe the answer is:
reading
'text' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'european plug stopping phone receiving' is the wordplay.
'european' becomes 'E' (abbreviation e.g. EU).
'plug' becomes 'ad' (as in plugging a product).
'stopping' indicates putting letters inside (inserted letters stop or plug a gap).
'phone' becomes 'ring' (to ring on the phone).
'receiving' indicates putting letters inside.
'ad' going inside 'ring' is 'rading'.
'e' put into 'rading' is 'READING'.
(Other definitions for reading that I've seen before include "to which Wilde was committed?" , "English university place" , "Book" , "red-brick uni" , "Perusing in an English town?" .)