Eastern inmate off with jacket? (7)
I believe the answer is:
matinee
'jacket?' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to communication as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'eastern inmate off' is the wordplay.
'eastern' becomes 'e'.
'off' indicates an anagram.
'e'+'inmate'='einmate'
'einmate' is an anagram of 'MATINEE'.
'with' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for matinee that I've seen before include "early "performance"" , "theatre performance" , "Afternoon show" , "Daytime performance of play etc" , "Afternoon theatre" .)