Definition of "wiretap" []

• A concealed listening or recording device connected to a communications circuit. (noun)
• The act of installing such a device. (noun)
• To connect a concealed listening or recording device to. (verb-transitive)
• To monitor (a telephone line) by means of such a device. (verb-transitive)
• To install a concealed listening or recording device or use it to monitor communications. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "John Sununu, R-N. H., and others that certain wiretap and record seizure provisions violate privacy rights."
• "An unwarranted wiretap is perfectly legal — so long as you go to the FISA court within 3 days after the fact."
• "From what I understand, the acutal process of apply for and recieving permission to wiretap is so slow, that by the time you got such permission, the opportunity would be gone."