New reps lose interest about hospital training facility (9)
I believe the answer is:
preschool
'training facility' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't understand how they can define each other.
'new reps lose interest about hospital' is the wordplay.
'new' indicates anagramming the letters.
'lose interest' becomes 'cool' (I've seen this in another clue).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'hospital' becomes 'H' (abbreviation for hospital).
'cool' placed around 'h' is 'chool'.
'reps' with letters rearranged gives 'pres'.
'pres'+'chool'='PRESCHOOL'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for preschool that I've seen before include "before education" , "early years" , "provided for kiddies?" , "Kindergarten" .)