wiretap

/wahyuhr-tap/US // ˈwaɪərˌtæp //UK // (ˈwaɪəˌtæp) //

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Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : an act or instance of tapping telephone or telegraph wires for evidence or other information.

v.有主动词 verb

1
wire·tapped, wire·tap·ping.
- : to obtain by tapping telephone or telegraph wires: to wiretap conversations.
- : to listen in on by means of a wiretap: to wiretap a telephone; to wiretap a conversation.

v.无主动词 verb

1
wire·tapped, wire·tap·ping.
- : to tap telephone or telegraph wires for evidence, information, etc.

adj.

as insurveillance

Forms: wiretapped, wiretapping

Synonyms

On Hoover’s desk sat a notebook containing all the outstanding wiretaps the Bureau then had running.
Theoharis obtained tens of thousands of documents related to illegal wiretaps, mail openings and break-ins.
There don’t seem to be any secret wiretaps or defectors who are telling all.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s guide to recording police notes that in places with one-party-consent wiretap laws—38 US states and the District of Columbia—you can freely record audio.
The government got what it needed from a wiretap of defendant Basaaly Saeed Moalin's phone, not from the mass collection of metadata.
After a wiretap at the home of a Civella relative produced devastating evidence of hidden ownership, the FBI moved in.
Tipped off by the wiretap, federal agents in another incident pulled over a locked freezer truck, loaded with 26 people.
Helpfully, he's fled to Yemen, where that nation's intelligence service can freely wiretap him.
After all, to get a FISA judge to grant a warrant, you at least need to know the name of the person you want to wiretap.

/wahyuhr-tap/US // ˈwaɪərˌtæp //UK // (ˈwaɪəˌtæp) //

窃窃窃听,窃窃私语,窃窃私听,窃听

n.名词 noun

1
- : an act or instance of tapping telephone or telegraph wires for evidence or other information.

v.有主动词 verb

1
wire·tapped, wire·tap·ping.
- : to obtain by tapping telephone or telegraph wires: to wiretap conversations.
- : to listen in on by means of a wiretap: to wiretap a telephone; to wiretap a conversation.

v.无主动词 verb

1
wire·tapped, wire·tap·ping.
- : to tap telephone or telegraph wires for evidence, information, etc.

adj.

as insurveillance

Forms: wiretapped, wiretapping

Synonyms

On Hoover’s desk sat a notebook containing all the outstanding wiretaps the Bureau then had running.
Theoharis obtained tens of thousands of documents related to illegal wiretaps, mail openings and break-ins.
There don’t seem to be any secret wiretaps or defectors who are telling all.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s guide to recording police notes that in places with one-party-consent wiretap laws—38 US states and the District of Columbia—you can freely record audio.
The government got what it needed from a wiretap of defendant Basaaly Saeed Moalin's phone, not from the mass collection of metadata.
After a wiretap at the home of a Civella relative produced devastating evidence of hidden ownership, the FBI moved in.
Tipped off by the wiretap, federal agents in another incident pulled over a locked freezer truck, loaded with 26 people.
Helpfully, he's fled to Yemen, where that nation's intelligence service can freely wiretap him.
After all, to get a FISA judge to grant a warrant, you at least need to know the name of the person you want to wiretap.