trade secret

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trade secret Meaning of "trade secret"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) a secret (method or device or formula) that gives a manufacturer an advantage over the competition

Usage(s):

  1. Google's algorithm is a trade secret, one guarded as jealously as the recipe for Coca-Cola.
  2. Almost immediately, studio engineers adopted it as a trade secret to fix flubbed notes, saving them the expense and hassle of having to redo sessions.
  3. The process of making one into the other is the trade secret of artists, but on each book, picture, statue is the trade-mark of the maker's tools.
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