26984 words

tradecraft

2 definitions • 2 examples
1
the skills and methods used by people who work for organizations involved in secret activities such as intelligence and spying (= finding out secret information about enemies and competitors) or terrorism (= violent political crime):

Examples:

For years they used the same planes, with the same registration numbers, to carry out secret missions, which was not good tradecraft.
2
the skills and methods used by someone doing a particular skilled job:

Examples:

My mentor, Professor Jane Slater, taught me the basic "tradecraft" of history.

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