Applicant for role of jester around British court? (9)
I believe the answer is:
jobseeker
'applicant for role' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether this works.
'jester around british court?' is the wordplay.
'jester' becomes 'joker' (I've seen this before).
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'british' becomes 'b' (abbreviation e.g. in 'BBC').
'court?' becomes 'see' (both can mean to date somebody).
'b'+'see'='bsee'
'joker' enclosing 'bsee' is 'JOBSEEKER'.
'of' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for jobseeker that I've seen before include "One wanting employment" , "One in unemployment" .)