Woman taking object to be friendship (5)
I believe the answer is:
amity
'be friendship' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'woman taking object' is the wordplay.
'woman' becomes 'amy' ().
'taking' indicates putting letters inside.
'object' becomes 'it' (pronoun for an inanimate object).
'amy' going around 'it' is 'AMITY'.
'to' is the link.
(Other definitions for amity that I've seen before include "Friendly feeling, fraternity" , "Friendship - goodwill" , "Friendliness" , "Cordial friendship" , "Friendly relations" .)