Hostility where an associate accepts one million (8)
I believe the answer is:
acrimony
'hostility' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both human attributes as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'an associate accepts one million' is the wordplay.
'an' becomes 'a'.
'associate' becomes 'crony' (I've seen this in another clue).
'accepts' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'one million' becomes 'im' (resembles cm, c million).
'crony' placed around 'im' is 'crimony'.
'a'+'crimony'='ACRIMONY'
'where' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for acrimony that I've seen before include "I cry, moan (anag)" , "poison" , "Rancour, bad blood" , "Bitterness or ill-feeling" , "Acronym I coined in hostility" .)