(business) A formula, practice, process, design, instrument, pattern, or compilation of information used by a business to obtain an advantage over competitors within the same industry or profession, which kept secret from those competitors or the public.

In Australian Aboriginal culture, restricted to initiated men, or to women; not public knowledge.

plural of trade secret

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of over-secrete

simple past tense and past participle of over-secrete

present participle of over-secrete

(cryptography) Any method for distributing a secret amongst a group of participants, each of whom is allocated a share; the secret can be reconstructed only when a sufficient number of shares (possibly of different types) are combined.

A revisionist interpretation of history, claimed to have been deliberately suppressed, forgotten, or ignored by established scholars.

plural of secret history

Synonym of mystery shopper