phone tapping

  • 1phone-tapping — phone .tapping n [U] the activity of listening secretly to other people s telephone conversations using special electronic equipment …

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  • 2phone-tapping — UK [ˈfəʊnˌtæpɪŋ] US [ˈfoʊnˌtæpɪŋ] noun [uncountable] the use of special equipment to listen to and record someone’s telephone conversations Thesaurus: telephone services and companieshyponym spies and spyinghyponym …

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  • 3phone-tapping — N UNCOUNT Phone tapping is the activity of listening secretly to someone s phone conversations using special electronic equipment. In most cases phone tapping is illegal. → See also tap There have also been claims of continued phone tapping and… …

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  • 4phone tapping — noun [noncount] Brit : ↑wiretapping * * * ˈphone tapping [phone tapping] noun = ↑telephone tapping …

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  • 5phone-tapping — phone tap|ping [ foun,tæpıŋ ] noun uncount the use of special equipment to listen to and record someone s telephone conversations …

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  • 6phone-tapping — noun (U) the activity of listening secretly to other people s telephone conversations using special electronic equipment …

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  • 7phone-tapping — UK [ˈfəʊnˌtæpɪŋ] / US [ˈfoʊnˌtæpɪŋ] noun [uncountable] the use of special equipment to listen to and record someone s telephone conversations …

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  • 8Irish phone tapping scandal (1983) — Michael Noonan revealed on January 20,1983 that the previous Fianna Fáil government had authorised illegal phone tapping of the journalists Geraldine Kennedy and Bruce Arnold [ [http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/2001/05/10/story2545.asp Irish… …

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  • 9Phone fraud — Whether in the form of the consumer attempting to defraud the telephone company, the telephone company attempting to defraud the consumer, or a third party attempting to defraud either of them, fraud has been a part of the telephone system almost …

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  • 10Telephone tapping — Wiretap redirects here. For the radio program, see WireTap (radio program). Telephone tapping (also wire tapping or wiretapping in American English) is the monitoring of telephone and Internet conversations by a third party, often by covert means …

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