Authorise some men to take ownership (7)
I believe the answer is:
entitle
'authorise' is the definition.
(I know that entitle is a type of authorise)
'some men to take ownership' is the wordplay.
'some men' becomes 'en' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to take' says to put letters next to each other.
'ownership' becomes 'title' (I have seen 'Legal ownership ' mean 'title' so perhaps 'ownership' could also mean 'title').
'en'+'title'='ENTITLE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for entitle that I've seen before include "confer rank" , "Qualify, empower" , "Furnish with a right or claim" , "Allow" , "Name, authorise" .)