Secretary gets temporary lease of life - support you'd associate from The Elders (8)
I believe the answer is:
parental
'life support you'd associate from the elders' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.
'secretary gets temporary lease' is the wordplay.
'secretary' becomes 'pa' (I've seen this in other clues).
'gets' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'temporary lease' becomes 'rental' ('rental' can be a synonym of 'lease'. I am not sure about the 'temporary' bit.**).
'pa'+'rental'='PARENTAL'
'of' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for parental that I've seen before include "Relating to mother and father" , "of some older relatives" , "of old man and woman" , "of father, perhaps" , "like mum and dad" .)