eavesdroppingI began to seek out sources of comprehensible input,eavesdropping(harmlessly!) when alone on trains or in coffee shops.From theCambridge English CorpusSuch monitoring can be performed through explicit queries, environmental observations or byeavesdroppingon communication, which can reduce the increased communication usually associated with teams.From theCambridge English CorpusThe closely related offences of barratry andeavesdroppingare shown next : only 5 individuals feature in the 7 cases, 4 men and a woman.From theCambridge English CorpusIt is likeeavesdroppingon a hushed conversation between brass players, and rather gives the lie to a devil-may-care attitude.From theCambridge English CorpusAs a listener, one almost appears to beeavesdropping.From theCambridge English CorpusSometimes you can do this at the time you hear a word, but if you're reading oreavesdropping, that's impossible.From theCambridge English CorpusEavesdroppingon a conversation that you have no business hearing.From theCambridge English CorpusOne woman and two men were accused ofeavesdropping.From theCambridge English CorpusEavesdropping, from the wording of the presentments, seems to imply not merely listening to private conversations but repeating what has been heard and thereby stirring up discord.From theCambridge English CorpusHosts, agents and other entities are vulnerable to a number of attacks ranging fromeavesdroppingcommunications to stealing sensitive and private data and inflicting damage by design through viruses.From theCambridge English CorpusCluster formation would also limit cross-talk due to common signal molecules between species, which raises issues of confusion, interference, andeavesdropping.From theCambridge English CorpusThey cover only telephonic interception and noteavesdroppingby induction methods as opposed to direct contact.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0In short, the end is not everything, for each individual case ofeavesdroppingis an invasion of privacy.FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - EnglishThe drastic increase ineavesdroppingdevices is in inverse proportion to their judicial effectiveness.FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - EnglishComputerised data banks are particularly vulnerable to espionage,eavesdroppingand error.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/eavesdropping##
