Outlook, sort cafe developed (8)
I believe the answer is:
forecast
'outlook' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'sort cafe developed' is the wordplay.
'developed' indicates an anagram.
'sort'+'cafe'='sortcafe'
'sortcafe' is an anagram of 'FORECAST'.
(Other definitions for forecast that I've seen before include "Fear Scot in prediction" , "Prophecy" , "tip" , "Prediction, about the weather perhaps" , "Divine" .)