noun
definition
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
definition
To install or to use such a connection.
Examples of wiretaps in a Sentence
Also, a majority of Americans are against unauthorized wiretaps regardless of Bush 's rhetoric in rationalizing the illegal surveillance.
This clash is seen in the debate over passenger profiling, roving wiretaps, surveillance, tracking systems, and immigration.
Katzenbach clashed with J. Edgar Hoover over his policy of ordering unauthorized wiretaps of people such as Martin Luther King.
Also, a majority of Americans are against unauthorized wiretaps regardless of Bush's rhetoric in rationalizing the illegal surveillance.