Learned community backed targeted account with American capital (8)
I believe the answer is:
academia
'learned community' is the definition.
'academia' can be an answer for 'community' (I have seen 'Educational community ' mean 'academia' so perhaps 'community' could also mean 'academia'). I'm unsure of the 'learned' bit.
'backed targeted account with american capital' is the wordplay.
'backed' says the letters should be written in reverse.
'targeted' becomes 'aimed' (I've seen this before).
'account' becomes 'ac' (abbreviation for account).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'capital' suggests taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'american' is 'a'.
'aimed'+'ac'='aimedac'
'aimedac' backwards is 'cademia'.
'cademia' after 'a' is 'ACADEMIA'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for academia that I've seen before include "The world of teaching" , "World of university and learning" , "The world of scholarship" , "educational environment" , "university life" .)