Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The methods used in clandestine operations such as espionage.
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- noun the
skills acquired throughexperience of atrade - noun espionage the
methods used inespionage andclandestine operations
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun skill acquired through experience in a trade; often used to discuss skill in espionage
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Examples
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The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss what they called tradecraft, or agency procedures.
Nevada Appeal - Top Stories By PAMELA HESS and ADAM GOLDMAN Associated Press 2010
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The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss what they called tradecraft, or agency procedures.
WCAX - Local News 2010
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The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss what they called tradecraft, or agency procedures.
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Wearing the garments was a kind of tradecraft signal that she wanted sex.
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Sloppy at "tradecraft," Ames left incriminating trash like typewriter ribbons from which FBI analysts could piece together messages to the KGB. Other moles: Now the CIA and KGB must try to compose a larger picture of the damage caused by Ames's betrayals.
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The readers you quote who seem to have spent too much time learning their "tradecraft" from Hollywood are also ignoring the actual practicalities of such a device.
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The CIA has been criticized for allowing al-Balawi onto the base in Khost without being searched, a violation of security protocols in Afghanistan and also what in intelligence parlance is called "tradecraft," which holds that meetings with agents such as al-Balawi should be limited to one or perhaps two CIA officers and never held in agency stations or bases.
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Intelligence officials also planned to give Balawi training in "tradecraft" and how to communicate Zawahiri's location back to his handlers.
The Guardian World News Adam Gabbatt 2010
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Committed to preserving national secrets, guns embedded in lipstick, maps hidden in decks of cards and other accoutrements of the spy trade (or, "tradecraft," as spies over here call it), you have to have the right passport.
Gadling 2009
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I had been gadding around the country learning how to be totally inconspicuous and acquiring the rudiments of "tradecraft", as John le Carré would have called it.
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