Place to drive from, with refusal to waste a minute (5)
I believe the answer is:
teeny
'minute' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'place to drive from with refusal to waste a' is the wordplay.
'place to drive from' becomes 'tee' (a golfer might strike a ball or 'drive' from a tee).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'refusal' becomes 'nay' (I've seen this before).
'to waste' is a deletion indicator.
'nay' with 'a' taken away is 'ny'.
'tee'+'ny'='TEENY'
(Other definitions for teeny that I've seen before include "Extremely small" , "Wee" , "Very little relating" , "Microscopic" , "Minuscule" .)