Vote for men to enter physical training as punishment (7)
I believe the answer is:
payment
'punishment' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'vote for men to enter physical training' is the wordplay.
'vote for' becomes 'ay' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to enter' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'physical training' becomes 'PT' (Physical Training).
'ay'+'men'='aymen'
'aymen' put into 'pt' is 'PAYMENT'.
'as' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for payment that I've seen before include "Settlement, remittance" , "Sum of money handed over" , "Purchase price" , "Punishment" , "Money given for service etc." .)