Director abandoning teams - cheers the rest (6)
I believe the answer is:
siesta
'the rest' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'director abandoning teams cheers' is the wordplay.
'director' becomes 'd'.
'abandoning' suggests deleting specific letters.
'teams' becomes 'sides' (I've seen this before).
'cheers' becomes 'ta' (I've seen this in other clues**).
'sides' with 'd' taken away is 'sies'.
'sies'+'ta'='SIESTA'
(Other definitions for siesta that I've seen before include "A mid-day nap in Spain" , "Rest of Spain" , "Afternoon snooze" , "An afternoon nap in Spain" , "Afternoon break" .)