Chap has time to govern (6)
I believe the answer is:
manage
'govern' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'chap has time' is the wordplay.
'chap' becomes 'man' (I've seen this before**).
'has' says to put letters next to each other.
'time' becomes 'age' (age is a kind of time).
'man'+'age'='MANAGE'
'to' is the link.
(Other definitions for manage that I've seen before include "Control, direct, run" , "Control; cope" , "Take responsibility for" , "Handle, cope with" , "Run, oversee" .)