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Echo of Conservative's ultimate career (9)

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I believe the answer is:

evocation

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'echo' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how one could define the other.

'conservative's ultimate career' is the wordplay.
'conservative's ultimate' becomes 'e' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'career' becomes 'vocation' (synonyms).
'e'+'vocation'='EVOCATION'

'of' is the link.

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(Other definitions for evocation that I've seen before include "A spell" , "A calling forth" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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