Shop uncovered concise memo transforming food technology (4,9)

I believe the answer is:

home economics

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'food technology' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to thinking as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?

'shop uncovered concise memo transforming' is the wordplay.
'uncovered' indicates the central letters.
'transforming' indicates an anagram (I've seen 'transformed' mean this).
The middle of 'shop' is 'ho'.
'concise'+'memo'='concisememo'
'concisememo' anagrammed gives 'meeconomics'.
'ho'+'meeconomics'='HOME ECONOMICS'

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(Other definitions for home economics that I've seen before include "Domestic science" , "1 [GCSE]" , "Cookery studies etc" , "Study of cookery and household management" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.

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