Send half a mile for a taxi (5)
I believe the answer is:
cable
'send' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with communicating as well as being verbs in their base form.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'half a mile for a taxi' is the wordplay.
'half a' indicates taking half.
'for' means one lot of letters go next to another (I've seen this in other clues).
'a taxi' becomes 'cab' (synonyms).
'mile' halved is 'le'.
'le' put after 'cab' is 'CABLE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for cable that I've seen before include "Naut. length; transmit" , "Telegram; thick rope" , "A message transmitted" , "Rope; message" , "Telegram; wire rope" .)