Summary of career out of action (7)
I believe the answer is:
rundown
'summary' is the definition.
(rundown is a kind of summary)
'career out of action' is the wordplay.
'career' becomes 'run' (I've seen this before).
'out of action' becomes 'down'.
'run'+'down'='RUNDOWN'
'of' is the link.
(Other definitions for rundown that I've seen before include "Disparage" , "Find fault" , "summary" , "reduction in numbers" , "Decry" .)