District with a real cash shortage (4)
I believe the answer is:
area
'district' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'with a real cash shortage' is the wordplay.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'real cash shortage' becomes 'rea' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'a' put next to 'rea' is 'AREA'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for area that I've seen before include "Territory" , "Length multiplied by breadth" , "Field of activity or surface" , "Geographical region" , "Part of a building, city etc" .)