Dine out and tip in change showing autonomy (12)
I believe the answer is:
independence
'autonomy' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'dine out and tip in change' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
an anagram of 'dine' is 'inde' which is present in the answer.
'and' could be 'n' (common abbreviation for 'and') and 'n' is found within the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
'showing' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for independence that I've seen before include "State of relying only on oneself" , "Freedom from outside control" , "lack of bias" , "Self-reliance" , "Autonomy" .)