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Man moving into place is one of the old people (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

samnite

'one of the old people' is the definition.
(the Samnites were an ancient European people)

'man moving into place' is the wordplay.
'moving' indicates anagramming the letters.
'into' is an insertion indicator.
'place' becomes 'site' (site is a kind of place).
'man' with letters rearranged gives 'amn'.
'amn' inserted into 'site' is 'SAMNITE'.

'is' is the link.

(Another definition for samnite that I've seen is " Ancient southern Italian; Roman gladiator".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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