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How to pronounce eavesdropper in English?

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Type Words
Type of snooper, hearer, attender, listener, auditor, snoop
Has types wiretapper, phone tapper, tapper
Derivation eavesdrop

Examples of eavesdropper

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An eavesdropper can therefore easily tell if the mirrors match by the wavelength.
From the newscientist.com
When a close match is found in a real call, the software alerts the eavesdropper.
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Each party would be communicating securely, but only through a third eavesdropper.
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An eavesdropper reading the transmission causes detectable changes at the receiver.
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Any eavesdropper will disrupt the photons'polarisation, giving away their presence.
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Now more than ever, Holt needs to draw on his role as sideline eavesdropper.
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Harry Caul, an electronic eavesdropper, for once lets someone listen to him.
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An eavesdropper could still glean some information in the process of being detected.
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Through a corporate sponsor, one also acting as an authorized eavesdropper.
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More examples
  • A secret listener to private conversations
  • Eavesdropping is the act of secretly listening to the private conversation of others without their consent, as defined by Black's Law Dictionary. This is commonly thought to be unethical and there is an old adage that eavesdroppers seldom hear anything good of themselves... ...
  • One who eavesdrops
  • (EAVES-DROPPERS) crim. law. Persons as wait under walls or windows or the eaves of a house, to listen to discourses, and thereupon to frame mischievous tales.