Competitor of tech giant detailed international hypocrisy (9)
I believe the answer is:
applicant
'competitor' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'tech giant detailed international hypocrisy' is the wordplay.
'tech giant' becomes 'Apple' (Apple is a technology company).
'detailed' means to remove the last letter (the tail of the word is removed).
'international' becomes 'i' (abbreviation eg in IMF).
'hypocrisy' becomes 'cant' (I've seen this before).
'apple' with its last letter taken off is 'appl'.
'appl'+'i'+'cant'='APPLICANT'
'of' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for applicant that I've seen before include "someone wanting a job" , "Candidate for a post" , "one looking for a job" , "Job seeker" , "Candidate for job" .)