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Conduct a couple of Poles into piece of land (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

transact

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'conduct' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'a couple of poles into piece of land' is the wordplay.
'a couple of poles' becomes 'ans' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'into' is an insertion indicator.
'piece of land' becomes 'tract' (synonyms).
'ans' going within 'tract' is 'TRANSACT'.

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(Other definitions for transact that I've seen before include "Conduct business, negotiate" , "Carry out, like business" , "Conduct trade" , "Manage" , "Deal with" .)

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