What's the difference between eavesdropper and evesdropper?
Eavesdropper
Definition:
(n.) One who stands under the eaves, or near the window or door of a house, to listen; hence, a secret listener.
Example Sentences:
(1) A book or movie allows us to commune with another mind, but only in the role of an onlooker or eavesdropper.
(2) The Italian greasy spoon (now gone) sold overpriced, watery cappuccino, but was only yards from both Downing Street and the Treasury, and its interior, only dimly visible from the street, was small enough to deter eavesdroppers.
(3) So the government can issue guarantees of privacy protection and our first thought is of missing discs, GCHQ eavesdroppers or perhaps hacked phones.
(4) Significantly, the Canadian eavesdroppers drew the line at sharing this “bulk metadata” precisely because of Canada’s privacy laws.
(5) The private realm may be ever-shrinking – in an age when we reveal so much of ourselves online and when we know the eavesdroppers of the NSA and GCHQ are never far away – but if there's one thing we'd want to keep behind high walls, it's surely the intimate histories of our mental and physical health.
(6) The physician-patient privilege has been redefined to include confidential communications made during diagnostic evaluation, those made to non-licensed physicians, interns and medical aides, and those overheard by eavesdroppers.
(7) Other "serious actors" were equally aware of the risks to their own security from NSA and GCHQ eavesdroppers, he said.
(8) Alistair Darling, the leader of the Better Together campaign, has said that under SNP plans the Scots would be reduced to “becoming eavesdroppers to one of the world's most successful broadcasting corporations”.
(9) The secret chamber was equipped with a white-noise generator to beat eavesdroppers, and plastic furniture that allegedly helped make sure nobody was recording the goings-on.
(10) "We were called spies, pryers, mass-eavesdroppers, nosey parkers, peeping-toms, lopers, snoopers, envelope-steamers, keyhole artists, sex maniacs, sissies and society playboys."
(11) As a category, the internet of things is useful to eavesdroppers both official and unofficial for a variety of reasons, the main one being the leakiness of the data.
(12) "In a sense the United States has gone from a 'model of human rights' to 'an eavesdropper on personal privacy', the 'manipulator' of the centralised power over the international Internet, and the mad 'invader' of other countries' networks," the official Communist party paper said.
(13) Just as was true for the protection of torturers and illegal eavesdroppers, it ensures that there are no incentives to avoid similar crimes in the future.