Notice criminal hold out for majority (9)
I believe the answer is:
adulthood
'majority' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'notice criminal hold out' is the wordplay.
'notice' becomes 'ad'.
'criminal' is an anagram indicator.
'hold'+'out'='holdout'
'holdout' is an anagram of 'ulthood'.
'ad'+'ulthood'='ADULTHOOD'
'for' is the link.
(Other definitions for adulthood that I've seen before include "Full maturity" , "Grown state" , "Time for a majority" , "Supposedly mature years" .)