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[ wahyuhr-tap ] / ˈwaɪərˌtæp / SEE SYNONYMS FOR wiretap ON THESAURUS.COM
nounan act or instance of tapping telephone or telegraph wires for evidence or other information. verb (used with object), wire·tapped, wire·tap·ping.to obtain (information, evidence, etc.) 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. verb (used without object), wire·tapped, wire·tap·ping.to tap telephone or telegraph wires for evidence, information, etc. adjectivepertaining to or obtained by wiretap. Origin of wiretapFirst recorded in 1950–55; back formation from wiretapper Words nearby wiretapwire service, wire side, wiresonde, wirespun, wire-stitch, wiretap, wiretapper, wire transfer, wire vine, wirewalker, wireway Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for wiretapThe government got what it needed from a wiretap of defendant Basaaly Saeed Moalin's phone, not from the mass collection of metadata. NSA spying exposed by Snowden was illegal and not very useful, court says|Jon Brodkin|September 3, 2020|Ars Technica After a wiretap at the home of a Civella relative produced devastating evidence of hidden ownership, the FBI moved in. The Ballad of Mitzi Stauffer Briggs, Heiress Who Lost It All in Vegas|John L. Smith|September 30, 2013|DAILY BEAST Tipped off by the wiretap, federal agents in another incident pulled over a locked freezer truck, loaded with 26 people. The Gangster Matriarch of L.A.|Christine Pelisek|September 13, 2010|DAILY BEAST 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. To Hell With Privacy|Richard Miniter|December 30, 2009|DAILY BEAST
British Dictionary definitions for wiretap
verb -taps, -tapping or -tappedto make a connection to a telegraph or telephone wire in order to obtain information secretly Derived forms of wiretapwiretapper, nounwiretapping, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to wiretapcontrol, supervision, scrutiny, examination, vigilance, inspection, care, search, inspect, consider, explore, study, probe, question, scrutinize, interrogate, examine, review, poke, snoop |