Recruit in growth area giving up employment for navy (9)
I believe the answer is:
greenhorn
'recruit' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'growth area giving up employment for navy' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'area' could be 'green' (green is a kind of area) and 'green' is present in the answer.
'navy' could be 'rn' (Royal Navy) and 'rn' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'ho' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'in' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for greenhorn that I've seen before include "One learning" , "One's not experienced" , "Rookie (American)" , "Gullible type" , "Person with no experience" .)