Current time to retire for Macron or possible White House resident? (5)
I believe the answer is:
inuit
'macron or possible white house resident?' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.
'current time to retire for' is the wordplay.
'current' becomes 'I' (symbol for electric current).
'time' becomes 't' (abbreviation).
'to' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (I've seen this in other clues).
'retire' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'for' becomes 'uni' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'uni' written backwards gives 'inu'.
'i'+'t'='it'
'it' after 'inu' is 'INUIT'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for inuit that I've seen before include "A Canadian eskimo" , "Arctic natives" , "People inhabiting the Arctic" , "people from northern Canada" , "A North American eskimo" .)