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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
tradecraft is a noun meaning "skill acquired through experience in a trade; often used to discuss skill in espionage". It carries one recorded sense.
skill acquired through experience in a trade; often used to discuss skill in espionage
“instructional designers are trained in something that might be called tradecraft”
“the CIA chief of station accepted responsibility for his agents' failures of tradecraft”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tradecraft come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.