Inventor getting refusal, standpoint rejected (6)
I believe the answer is:
edison
'inventor' is the definition.
(I know that Edison is a inventor)
'refusal standpoint rejected' is the wordplay.
'refusal' becomes 'no' (saying no to something).
'standpoint' becomes 'side' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'rejected' says the letters should be written backwards.
'no'+'side'='noside'
'noside' backwards is 'EDISON'.
'getting' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for edison that I've seen before include "inventive sort" , "Incandescent light inventor" , "The inventor is strangely onside" , "Thomas Alva ......, great American inventor" , "US inventor of over 1,000 devices" .)