Footholds in the financial world (6)
I believe the answer is:
stocks
'footholds' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'the financial world' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'the' could be 't' (the is pronounced as a 't' sound in some dialects) and 't' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'socks' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'in' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for stocks that I've seen before include "bloomers" , "Securities, investments" , "Plants; form of punishment" , "Village greens used to have these" , "In which miscreant is locked" .)