Compensations for communists divided by conflict (7)
I believe the answer is:
rewards
'compensations' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both acts as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'communists divided by conflict' is the wordplay.
'communists' becomes 'reds' (red is a kind of communist).
'divided by' indicates putting letters inside.
'conflict' becomes 'war' (war is a kind of conflict).
'reds' going around 'war' is 'REWARDS'.
'for' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for rewards that I've seen before include "Payments made as marks of appreciation" , "Benefits" , "They're given in recognition of merit or service" , "Gifts given in acknowledgement of behaviour or merits" , "Gifts of appreciation" .)