eavesdropping

eavesdropping

English

Etymology

From eavesdrop +‎ -ing.

Noun

eavesdropping (countable and uncountable, plural eavesdroppings)

1. gerund of eavesdrop
   1. Listening secretly to the private conversations of others.
      • 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 7, in Well Tackled!:

        The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.

   2. (telecommunications) The interception of electronic communication.
   3. (zoology) The act of one organism listening for another's calls, so as to exploit them.

Translations

listening secretly to the private conversations of others

Chinese: Mandarin: 竊聽／窃听 (zh) (qiètīng) Finnish: salakuuntelu (fi) German: Lauschen n, Abhören n Greek: κρυφάκουσμα (el) n (kryfákousma), λαθρακρόαση f (lathrakróasi), ωτακουστία f (otakoustía) Hungarian: hallgatózás Italian: origliamento m, l'origliare m, ascolto di nascosto m Japanese: 盗聴 (ja) (とうちょう, tōchō) Polish: podsłuchiwanie (pl) n, podsłuchanie (pl) n Romanian: trage cu urechea Russian: подслу́шивание (ru) n (podslúšivanije) Scottish Gaelic: farchluais Serbo-Croatian: prisluškivanje (sh) n, прислушкивање n Swedish: tjuvlyssning c

interception of electronic communication

Chinese: Mandarin: 竊聽／窃听 (zh) (qiètīng) Finnish: salakuuntelu (fi) French: écoute clandestine f German: Abhören n Italian: intercettazione telefonica f, intercettazione comuncazioni f Japanese: 盗聴 (ja) (とうちょう, tōchō) Polish: podsłuchiwanie (pl) n, podsłuch (pl) m Romanian: interceptare (ro) Russian: подслу́шивание (ru) n (podslúšivanije), перехва́т (ru) m (perexvát), прослу́шка (ru) f (proslúška) (colloquial) Serbo-Croatian: prisluškivanje (sh) n, прислушкивање n Swedish: avlyssning (sv) c

Verb

eavesdropping

1. present participle of eavesdrop

Further reading

• eavesdropping on Wikipedia.Wikipedia