Usually means: Listening secretly to private conversations.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. eavesdrop: Merriam-Webster
  2. eavesdrop: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. eavesdrop: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. eavesdrop: Collins English Dictionary
  5. eavesdrop: Vocabulary.com
  6. Eavesdrop, eavesdrop: Wordnik
  7. eavesdrop: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. eavesdrop: Wiktionary
  9. eavesdrop: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. eavesdrop: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. eavesdrop: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. eavesdrop: Dictionary.com
  13. eavesdrop: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Eavesdrop: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Eavesdrop: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. eavesdrop: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. eavesdrop: Rhymezone
  18. Eavesdrop: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. eavesdrop: FreeDictionary.org
  20. eavesdrop: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Eavesdrop: The Word Detective
  22. eavesdrop: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. eavesdrop: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. eavesdrop: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. eavesdrop: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. eavesdrop: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eavesdrop: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eavesdrop: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eavesdrop: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eavesdrop: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

(Note: See eavesdropped as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (ambitransitive) To hear (intentionally) a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
verb:  (zoology) To listen for another organism's calls, so as to exploit them.
noun:  The dripping of rain from the eaves of a house.
noun:  The space around a house on which such water drips.
noun:  (countable) A concealed aperture through which an occupant of a building can surreptitiously listen to people talking at an entrance to the building.
noun:  (countable) The act of intentionally hearing a conversation not intended to be heard.

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