Money for one on the staff (4)
I believe the answer is:
note
'money' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'one on the staff' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'the' could be 't' (the is pronounced as a 't' sound in some dialects) and 't' is present in the answer.
an anagram of 'one' is 'noe' which is located in the left over letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'for' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for note that I've seen before include "held by piano teacher" , "Single tone; short letter" , "Tone of distinction" , "Pay attention to; record" , "Detect and remember" .)