Usually means: Listening to others without participating.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word overhearing:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. overhearing: Merriam-Webster
  2. overhearing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. overhearing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Overhearing, overhearing: Wordnik
  5. overhearing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. overhearing: Wiktionary
  7. Overhearing, overhearing: Dictionary.com
  8. overhearing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Overhearing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Overhearing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. overhearing: FreeDictionary.org
  12. overhearing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overhearing: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (overhearing)

▸ noun:  The act by which something is overheard.

Similar:
take in, catch, overlarding, overreading, overruling, overloudness, overpowering, overissue, overruler, overness, more...

Opposite:
eavesdropping, listening in, spying, monitoring, intercepting

Types:
eavesdropping, bugging, wiretapping, monitoring, more...

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Similar:
take in, catch, overlarding, overreading, overruling, overloudness, overpowering, overissue, overruler, overness, more...

Opposite:
eavesdropping, listening in, spying, monitoring, intercepting

Types:
eavesdropping, bugging, wiretapping, monitoring, more...



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