Chaste priest on strike in church (8)
I believe the answer is:
celibate
'chaste' is the definition.
('celibate' can be similar in meaning to 'chaste')
'priest on strike in church' is the wordplay.
'priest' becomes 'eli' (I've seen this before).
'on strike' becomes 'bat' (I am not sure about the 'on' bit.**).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'church' becomes 'ce' (abbreviation for Church of England).
'eli'+'bat'='elibat'
'elibat' placed within 'ce' is 'CELIBATE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for celibate that I've seen before include "Living as a single person" , "Refraining from sex" , "He forgoes sex" , "Continent" , "Belie act of being voluntarily chaste" .)