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Capacity of certain chaps in the new team (11)

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I believe the answer is:

measurement

'capacity' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'certain chaps in the new team' is the wordplay.
'certain' becomes 'sure' (synonyms).
'chaps' becomes 'men' (chap can mean a man).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'the new' is an anagram indicator.
'sure'+'men'='suremen'
'team' with letters rearranged gives 'meat'.
'suremen' inserted inside 'meat' is 'MEASUREMENT'.

'of' is the link.

(Other definitions for measurement that I've seen before include "Dimension" , "Size" , "What a ruler may give" , "Mensuration" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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