eavesdropping
Sign in to saveupright=1.35|thumb|Cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinals eavesdropping in the Vatican. A painting by , 1895 Eavesdropping is the act of secretly or stealthily listening to the private conversation or communications of others without their consent in order to gather information.
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upright=1.35|thumb|Cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinals eavesdropping in the Vatican. A painting by , 1895 Eavesdropping is the act of secretly or stealthily listening to the private conversation or communications of others without their consent in order to gather information.
==Etymology== The verb eavesdrop is a back-formation from the noun eavesdropper ("a person who eavesdrops"), which was formed from the related noun eavesdrop ("the dripping of water from the eaves of a house; the ground on which such water falls").
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