Idle head in front of governors (7)
I believe the answer is:
loafing
'idle' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)
'head in front of governors' is the wordplay.
'head' becomes 'loaf' (slang term for the head).
'front of' says to take the initial letters (the letter at the front of the word).
The initial letter of 'governors' is 'g'.
'loaf'+'in'+'g'='LOAFING'
(Other definitions for loafing that I've seen before include "Idling, hanging around" , "not working" , "Being idle" , "Lazing about" .)