Foreign agent organised collective nouns, left note out (4-6)
I believe the answer is:
vice-consul
'foreign agent organised collective nouns' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether this works.
'left note out' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'left' could be 'l' (common abbreviation) and 'l' is present in the answer.
'note' could be 'n' (abbreviation) and 'n' is found in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for vice-consul that I've seen is " Deputy representative".)