European plug stopping phone receiving text (7)
I believe the answer is:
reading
'text' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'european plug stopping phone receiving' is the wordplay.
'european' becomes 'E' (abbreviation e.g. EU).
'plug' becomes 'ad' (as in plugging a product).
'stopping' means one lot of letters goes inside another (stopping can mean blocking a gap).
'phone' becomes 'ring' (to ring on the phone).
'receiving' is an insertion indicator.
'ad' placed into 'ring' is 'rading'.
'e' put inside 'rading' is 'READING'.
(Other definitions for reading that I've seen before include "to which Wilde was committed?" , "English university place" , "Book" , "red-brick uni" , "Perusing in an English town?" .)