Market lacking a share of the cake? (4)
I believe the answer is:
mart
'market' is the definition.
(I know that market can be written as mart)
'lacking a share of the cake?' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'a' is within the answer.
'the' could be 't' (the is pronounced as a 't' sound in some dialects) and 't' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'mr' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for mart that I've seen before include "Place" , "Trading centre" , "Take tram to market" , "US shop; market" .)