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See me raising and holding trick in my hands (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

employees

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'hands' is the definition.
(as in 'all hands on deck')

'see me raising and holding trick in my' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
an anagram of 'see' is 'ees' which is present in the answer.
'trick' could be 'ploy' (I've seen this before) and 'ploy' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'em' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for employees that I've seen before include "Workforce" , "Workers" , "People on the payroll" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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