Take away tons transported back (7)
I believe the answer is:
detract
'take' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with social activities as well as being verbs in their base form.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'away tons transported back' is the wordplay.
'away tons' becomes 't' (I am not sure about the 'away' bit.**).
'transported' becomes 'carted' (carting is a kind of transporting).
'back' says the letters should be written backwards.
't'+'carted'='tcarted'
'tcarted' in reverse letter order is 'DETRACT'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for detract that I've seen before include "Take away (from worth)" , "Devaluate" , "Belittle" , "Take away, character perhaps" , "Diminish the worth (of)" .)