Do without someone to lead the team (4)
I believe the answer is:
skip
'do without' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are verbs in their base form.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'someone to lead the team' is the wordplay.
'to lead' suggests taking the first letters.
'the team' becomes 'kip' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
The first letter of 'someone' is 's'.
's'+'kip'='SKIP'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for skip that I've seen before include "Bob" , "Leap - leave out" , "Jump - rubbish container - captain - omit" , "Move with hops and steps" , "Hop, leap" .)