European match abandoned — accepted by Brown (8)
I believe the answer is:
dutchman
'european' is the definition.
(Dutchman is an example)
'match abandoned accepted by brown' is the wordplay.
'abandoned' indicates anagramming the letters.
'accepted by' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'brown' becomes 'dun' (dun is a kind of brown).
'match' is an anagram of 'tchma'.
'tchma' put inside 'dun' is 'DUTCHMAN'.
(Other definitions for dutchman that I've seen before include "Native of Amsterdam, for example" , "Wagner composed 'The Flying ........'" , "Wagner's seafarer" , "European" , "bolster his wife" .)