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Definitionv. listen without the speaker's knowledge
Last update: February 21, 2019
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Electonic eavesdropping is used by the police. [verb]
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When the maid appeared, she rubbed her eyelids and sat sleepily up as though just awakened: she remembered that she had eavesdropped, and the maid must be persuaded that she had not. [Please select]
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He liked to eavesdrop on the conversations that people talk about. [Please select]
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The vice president liked to eavesdrop on strangers near by the building. [Please select]
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She instead looks for a seat at the bar near the group, going into eavesdrop mode. [verb]
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The more complex the encryption algorithm, the more difficult it becomes to eavesdrop on the communications without access to the key. [verb]
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So I judged I'd got to do the other thinglay for them and eavesdrop. [verb]
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"I didn't intend to eavesdrop, and I didn't--very much; but since I couldn't help overhearing such a pertinent bit of conversation, I'll come up and we'll get to the bottom of it."' [Please select]
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