trade secret
noun [C]Definition
› a valuable piece of information about a product, project, etc. which is known only to people in the company involved, and which is kept secret from competitors: He was fired for revealing the company's trade secrets to a competitor.
(Definition of trade secret noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
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