Commission space for grand silver elephant’s head (6)
I believe the answer is:
engage
'commission' is the definition.
The definition and answer 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 don't see?
'space for grand silver elephant's head' is the wordplay.
'space' becomes 'en' (in printing, a space as wide as a letter 'n').
'for' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'grand' becomes 'g' (G is short for grand as in a thousand).
'silver' becomes 'Ag' (Ag is the chemical symbol for silver).
'head' says to take the initial letters.
The initial letter of 'elephants' is 'e'.
'en'+'g'+'ag'+'e'='ENGAGE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for engage that I've seen before include "Employ or take on" , "Pay to serve" , "Become bound; attract" , "Secure" , "Occupy (interest)" .)