Outside link accommodating short study (6)
I believe the answer is:
beyond
'outside' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'link accommodating short study' is the wordplay.
'link' becomes 'bond' (bonding is a kind of linking).
'accommodating' indicates putting letters inside.
'short' means to remove the last letter.
'study' becomes 'eye' (both can mean to examine).
'eye' with its last letter removed is 'ey'.
'bond' enclosing 'ey' is 'BEYOND'.
(Other definitions for beyond that I've seen before include "On the far side of" , "(The) hereafter" , "Better than" , "On the farther side - in addition" , "Outside the range of" .)