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Definition: Tradecraft |
TradecraftNoun1. Skill acquired through experience in a trade; "instructional designers are trained in something that might be called tradecraft"; often used to discuss skill in espionage; "the CIA chief of station accepted responsibility for his agents' failures of tradecraft". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| "Tradecraft" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tradecraft" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tradecraft | 11 |
spy technique tradecraft | 2 |
spy tradecraft | 2 |
clandestine tradecraft | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tradecraft": tradecrafts. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-f-r-r-t-t" | |
-2 letters: artefact. | |
-3 letters: carfare, crafted, detract, drafter, fracted, redraft, refract, retract, teacart. | |
-4 letters: afeard, arcade, carafe, carate, carder, carted, carter, catted, crated, crater, dafter, darter, errata, facade, farced, farcer, fatted, fatter, frater, rafted, rafter, ratted, ratter, redact, retard, tarred, tartar, tarted, tarter, tetrad, traced, tracer, trader. | |
-5 letters: aceta, acred, acted, after, arced, areca, attar, cadet. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-e-f-r-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: tradecrafts. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 72 61 64 65 63 72 61 66 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .-. .- -.. . -.-. .-. .- ..-. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01110010 01100001 01100100 01100101 01100011 01110010 01100001 01100110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T r a d e c r a f t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0072 0061 0064 0065 0063 0072 0061 0066 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54846770716984677286 |
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