Main idea in manufacturing coils for engineering (9)
I believe the answer is:
logistics
'engineering' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'main idea in manufacturing coils' is the wordplay.
'main idea' becomes 'gist' (I've seen this before).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'manufacturing' is an anagram indicator.
'coils' anagrammed gives 'loics'.
'gist' put into 'loics' is 'LOGISTICS'.
'for' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for logistics that I've seen before include "organisation" , "Art of military movement and supply" , "Task of movement and supply of troops" .)