Company woman who governs, inter alia, social workers (5,3)
I believe the answer is:
queen bee
'company woman who governs inter alia social workers' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't understand how they can define each other.
'company woman who governs inter alia' is the wordplay.
'company' becomes 'bee' (company or gathering of people).
'woman who governs' becomes 'queen'.
'inter alia' says to put letters next to each other.
'bee' put after 'queen' is 'QUEEN-BEE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for queen bee that I've seen before include "Dominant woman - chief buzzer?" , "Woman of importance" , "She rules the hive" , "Dominant female in group" , "The fertile, non-working female of the hive" .)