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ˈtradecraft
[f. trade n. + craft n. in various senses.]
†a. A trade-guild.
b. Skill or art in connexion with a trade or calling; spec. skill in espionage and intelligence work; cf. trade n. 6 e.
c. The craft or art of trading or dealing.
1810Combe Picturesque xxv. (1865) 370 And this same Hall their trade-craft found To be a sort of neutral ground. 1866Macm. Mag. Oct. 432 There is tradecraft in literature as well as in painting. 1899R. Whiteing 5 John St. xxvi. 258 It is a lesson in tradecraft..to see how the girl holds her own with the dealers. 1961‘J. le Carré’ Call for Dead v. 56 He was suddenly alert... Was it the latent skill of his own tradecraft which informed him? 1979Observer 30 Dec. 7/7 At every juncture of the break-in he made decisions that proved catastrophic, applied ‘trade craft’ that was ludicrous, and misled his accomplices about matters that were either incriminating to himself or strategic to the break-in's failure. |