American attempts to get behind independent businesses (10)
I believe the answer is:
industries
'businesses' is the definition.
(industry is a kind of business)
'american attempts to get behind independent' is the wordplay.
'american' becomes 'us'.
'attempts' becomes 'tries' ('try' can be a synonym of 'attempt').
'to get' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'behind independent' becomes 'ind' (I've seen this in other clues. I am not sure about the 'behind' bit.**).
'us'+'tries'='ustries'
'ustries' put after 'ind' is 'INDUSTRIES'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for industries that I've seen is " commercial enterprises".)