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One who talks about exercising person in exchange (8)

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I believe the answer is:

operator

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'person in exchange' is the definition.
'operator' can be an answer for 'person' (operator is a kind of person). I'm not sure about the 'in exchange' bit.

'one who talks about exercising' is the wordplay.
'one who talks' becomes 'orator' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'exercising' becomes 'pe' (abbreviation for Physical Education).
'orator' placed around 'pe' is 'OPERATOR'.

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(Other definitions for operator that I've seen before include "Agent that handles an apparatus" , "Person who directs or controls, machine say (8)." , "Manipulative type of person" , "Driver" , "One working a machine" .)

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