wiretap

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To install or to use such a device
A concealed device connected to a telephone or other communications system that allows a third party to listen or record conversations
The act of installing such a device
the act of tapping a telephone or telegraph line to get information
the act of tapping a telephone or telegraph line to get information tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information; "The FBI was tapping the phone line of the suspected spy"; "Is this hotel room bugged?
{s} of eavesdropping by way of an electronic listening device
{f} install an electronic listening device in order to eavesdrop
tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information; "The FBI was tapping the phone line of the suspected spy"; "Is this hotel room bugged?"
If someone wiretaps your telephone, they attach a special device to the line so that they can secretly listen to your conversations. The coach said his club had wire-tapped the hotel room of a player during a road trip. = bug Wiretap is also a noun. tapes of telephone conversations that can have been obtained only by illegal wiretaps. + wiretapping wire·tapping allegations of wiretapping
{i} bug, electric listening device installed in a room or on a telephone line
wiretapping
Present participle of wiretap
illegal wiretap
unlawful spying by means of accessing someone's telephone line with a listening device
wiretapping
the installation or monitoring of wiretaps
wiretapping
the action of secretly listening to other people's telephone conversations, by connecting something to the wires of their telephone
wiretapping
{i} eavesdropping via electronic listening devices (especially to a particular telephone line)
wiretaps
plural of wiretap
wiretap
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