tradecraft

noun

trade·​craft ˈtrād-ˌkraft How to pronounce tradecraft (audio)
: the techniques and procedures of espionage

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Personnel are difficult to replace in intelligence given the unique nature of the job, with its specialized tradecraft, knowledge, and expertise. Peter Schroeder, Foreign Affairs, 17 Jan. 2025 Until these recent disclosures—comprising more than 3,000 individual files—observers could mostly just speculate about the goals, specific methods and tradecraft, and bureaucratic procedures driving contemporary Russian disinformation campaigns. Thomas Rid, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2024 The documents expose not just the outputs of disinformation campaigns but their inputs—the proposals, the internal assessments and evaluations, the tradecraft, the technological methods, the identity of the contractors running the projects, and the funders and politicians behind those contractors. Thomas Rid, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2024 Clever tradecraft Software developer kits, better known as SDKs, are apps that provide developers with frameworks that can greatly speed up the app-creation process by streamlining repetitive tasks. Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 23 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for tradecraft 

Word History

First Known Use

1961, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of tradecraft was in 1961

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“Tradecraft.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tradecraft. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.

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