An electronic device used for secretly listening to or recording someone's conversations.
listening devices had been found in his private office
Example sentencesExamples
- In movies, surveillance subjects often stroll in the park to escape listening devices.
- In December 1997, police installed covert listening devices in premises occupied by the appellant.
- Police say paparazzi planted a listening device outside her home in Sydney.
- Currently, it is an offence to intentionally intercept any private communication by means of a listening device.
- Instead of picking up the boardroom conversation, a listening device detects only the noise.