Hot air from gentleman accepting compliance with companies going back and forth (8)
I believe the answer is:
scirocco
'companies going back and forth' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether this works.
'hot air from gentleman accepting compliance' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'from' could be 'o' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'o' is found within the answer.
'compliance' could be 'c' (physics abbreviation) and 'c' is located in the answer.
'gentleman' could be 'sir' (a man may be addressed as sir) and 'sir' is found in the remaining letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'with' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for scirocco that I've seen is " Dry hot dusty wind blowing from N Africa".)