Redirect car covering conflict (7)
I believe the answer is:
forward
'redirect' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with motion as well as being verbs in their base form.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'car covering conflict' is the wordplay.
'car' becomes 'ford' (ford is a make of car).
'covering' indicates putting letters inside.
'conflict' becomes 'war' (war is a kind of conflict).
'ford' enclosing 'war' is 'FORWARD'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for forward that I've seen before include "To the front" , "Promote" , "Brazen" , "Presumptuous" , "Pushy - send (on)" .)