Abandoning output in government (8)
I believe the answer is:
yielding
'abandoning' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with motion as well as being present participle verbs.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'output in government' is the wordplay.
'output' becomes 'yield' (synonyms).
'government' becomes 'g' (abbreviation for government).
'yield'+'in'+'g'='YIELDING'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for yielding that I've seen before include "Giving way" , "Succumbing" , "Bearing" , "elastic" , "Submissive" .)