Wire-tap

Quick meaning: Wire-tap is a noun meaning Alternative form of wiretap.

Meaning

Alternative form of wiretap.

Example Sentences

Subordinate to this argument is the violation of a variety of state and federal statutes, including Section 605 of the Communications Act of 1934, which expressly forbids the use of a wire-tap.

The British naval code breakers had illegally wire-tapped the encrypted message from an American telegraph cable that ran from Germany through the United Kingdom and then on the Atlantic seabed to the United States.

There is one apparent scenario of conciliation in the allegory, in which teachers, and by extension, parents, are urged to talk to children about 'TV programs because “it's the easiest way to wire-tap their private world” (Glasser, 58).

A police wire-tap that enmeshed some of Turkey's most powerful in 2012 led to cumulative sentences totalling more than 42 years being handed down to 93 officials, players and agents for match-fixing, bribery, extortion and membership of a crime syndicate.

Word Forms

• wire-taps
• wire-tapping
• wire-tapped

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