Oil exporters work with European Community (4)
I believe the answer is:
opec
'oil exporters' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't understand how one could define the other.
'work with european community' is the wordplay.
'work' becomes 'op' (abbreviation for opus).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'european community' becomes 'EC' (abbreviation).
'op'+'ec'='OPEC'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for opec that I've seen before include "[CRUDE OIL] suppliers?" , "Group of countries with a common oil policy" , "price-fixers?" , "Cartel of oil-producing countries" , "Group of petroleum producing countries, formed in 1961" .)