Friend in New York to receive allowance (6)
I believe the answer is:
budget
'allowance' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'friend in new york to receive' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'friend' could be 'bud' (shortly for buddy) and 'bud' is found in the answer.
'receive' could be 'get' (synonyms) and 'get' is located in the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for budget that I've seen before include "Chancellor's financial statement" , "Chancellor of the Exchequer's responsibility?" , "Limit of funds" , "occasion for speech" , "Sum allocated for purpose" .)