Echo of Conservative's ultimate career (9)
I believe the answer is:
evocation
'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.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for evocation that I've seen before include "A spell" , "A calling forth" .)