Lifting catch, refuse to restrict Charlie's movement (8)
I believe the answer is:
tendency
'movement' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'lifting catch refuse to restrict charlie's' is the wordplay.
'lifting catch' becomes 'ten' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'refuse' becomes 'deny' (synonyms).
'to restrict' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'charlie' becomes 'c' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'deny' going around 'c' is 'dency'.
'ten'+'dency'='TENDENCY'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for tendency that I've seen before include "Proclivity" , "Inclination towards a particular behaviour" , "Inclination or leaning" , "Predisposition" , "Penchant, inclination" .)