Company lease housing male orderly (8)
I believe the answer is:
coherent
'orderly' is the definition.
('coherent' can be similar in meaning to 'orderly')
'company lease housing male' is the wordplay.
'company' becomes 'co' (abbreviation).
'lease' becomes 'rent' ('rent' can be a synonym of 'lease').
'housing' indicates putting letters inside.
'male' becomes 'he'.
'co'+'rent'='corent'
'corent' placed around 'he' is 'COHERENT'.
(Other definitions for coherent that I've seen before include "Sticking together" , "Not rambling in speech or reason" , "Logical and lucid" , "making sense" , "Holding together as a whole" .)