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wiretap

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

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an act or instance of tapping telephone or telegraph wires for evidence or other information.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 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. 1

    wire·tapped, wire·tap·ping.

    • : to tap telephone or telegraph wires for evidence, information, etc.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pertaining to or obtained by wiretap.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as ininvestigate
Forms: wiretapped, wiretapping
Synonyms
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Examples

  • 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.