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trade secret

 
/ˈtreɪd ˈsi·krɪt/ n [C]

Definition

a piece of information about a product that is known only to the company that makes it: The recipe for their ketchup is a trade secret.
(Definition of trade secret n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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