Disciple given a job by the French (7)
I believe the answer is:
apostle
'disciple' is the definition.
(the apostles were disciples of Jesus)
'a job by the french' is the wordplay.
'job' becomes 'post' (post is a kind of job).
'by' says to put letters next to each other.
'the french' becomes 'le' ('the' in French).
'a'+'post'+'le'='APOSTLE'
'given' is the link.
(Other definitions for apostle that I've seen before include "Peter, perhaps" , "Luke or John, say" , "Follower of Christ" , "Leaps to find religious follower" , "One of the biblical twelve (7)well don" .)