Money taken from country club certainly not brought back (7)
I believe the answer is:
revenue
'money' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to property as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'country club certainly not brought back' is the wordplay.
'country club' becomes 'EU' (whimsically speaking, a club made up of countries).
'certainly not' becomes 'never' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'brought back' says the letters should be written backwards.
'eu'+'never'='eunever'
'eunever' in reverse letter order is 'REVENUE'.
'taken from' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for revenue that I've seen before include "Earnings" , "Takings" , "profit" , "Money coming in" , "Gross business income" .)