Type of college in Switzerland a client freely describes (9)
I believe the answer is:
technical
'type of college in' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'switzerland a client freely describes' is the wordplay.
'switzerland' becomes 'ch' (short for Confoederatio Helvetica, its Latin name).
'freely' is an anagram indicator.
'describes' means one lot of letters goes inside another (describe can mean to form the outline of).
'a'+'client'='aclient'
'aclient' anagrammed gives 'tenical'.
'ch' placed within 'tenical' is 'TECHNICAL'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for technical that I've seen before include "Requiring special knowledge to be understood" , "Concerned with applied sciences" , "as per strict rules" , "requires special skill" , "- Drawing; - foul" .)