Like to keep jade stuff in changed forms (8)
I believe the answer is:
anagrams
'changed forms' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to communication as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'like to keep jade stuff in' is the wordplay.
'like' becomes 'as'.
'to keep' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'jade' becomes 'nag' (synonyms).
'stuff' becomes 'ram' (ramming is a kind of stuffing).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'as' enclosing 'nag' is 'anags'.
'anags' going around 'ram' is 'ANAGRAMS'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for anagrams that I've seen before include "Words with letters transposed to form other words" , "Words turned into other words" , "Mixed-up words as ragman have it" , ""Sword" from "words" and "seraph" from "phrase", for example" , "Word jumbles" .)