Usually means: Covert surveillance through telephone monitoring.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. wiretaps: Merriam-Webster
  2. wiretaps: Collins English Dictionary
  3. wiretaps: Vocabulary.com
  4. Wiretaps, wiretaps: Wordnik
  5. wiretaps: Wiktionary
  6. wiretaps: Dictionary.com
  7. wiretaps: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  8. Wiretaps: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. wiretaps: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. wiretaps: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. wiretaps: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wiretaps: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (wiretap)

▸ noun:  A connection installed on a telephone line or other communications system in order to allow a third party to conduct covert surveillance of conversations.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To install or to use such a connection.
▸ Also see wiretap


Opposite:
encryption, privacy, security



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Opposite:
encryption, privacy, security




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