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wiretap
noun as in surveillance
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care, control, examination, inspection, scrutiny, supervision, vigilance
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bug, direction, eye, lookout, spying, stakeout, superintendence, tab, tail, tap, track, vigil, watch
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verb as in eavesdrop
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verb as in investigate
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consider, examine, explore, inspect, interrogate, probe, question, review, scrutinize, search, study
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bug, case, delve, dig, eyeball, frisk, inquire, muckrake, poke, prospect, pry, read, reconnoiter, research, scout, sift, spy, tap
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be all ears, check out, check over, check up, feel out, give the once-over, go into, inquisite, listen in, look into, look over, make inquiry, nose around, put to the test, run down, stake out
verb as in pry
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bug, gape, gaze, hunt, inquire, intrude, investigate, meddle, nose, peek, peep, peer, ransack, reconnoiter, rubberneck, search, snoop, spy, stare, tap
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be a busybody, be all ears, be curious, be inquisitive, be nosy, ferret out, listen in, poke nose into, tune in on
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Example Sentences
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.
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On this page you'll find 142 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to wiretap, such as: care, control, examination, inspection, scrutiny, and supervision.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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