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skill acquired through experience in a trade; often used to discuss skill in espionage
the CIA chief of station accepted responsibility for his agents' failures of tradecraft
instructional designers are trained in something that might be called tradecraft
How To Use tradecraft In A Sentence
- Failing that, basic tradecraft would include avoiding the question. Times, Sunday Times
- You are right, we have -- in contingency contracting in Iraq, in the early years, did not have the tradecraft and the controls that were appropriate. David Isenberg: A Hundred Billion Dollars Up in Smoke
- 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. Top stories from Times Online
- 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
- Hanssen was slack about ‘tradecraft’ because he knew just how remote the possibility of discovery was.
- Their tactics and tradecraft are familiar to us all: exploding gadgets, invisible ink, false-bottomed briefcases, passwords, deadletter drops, clandestine infiltration. Times, Sunday Times
- The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss what they called tradecraft, or agency procedures. Nevada Appeal - Top Stories
- He has no training, yet his tradecraft is superb: he's brave, loyal and dogged. Times, Sunday Times
- They loved to impress visitors with what they called 'tradecraft'. Times, Sunday Times
- 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
