eavesdroppings

Noun

eavesdropping (countable and uncountable, plural eavesdroppings)

1. Listening secretly to the private conversations of others.
   • The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he...1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 7, in Well Tackled!, →OL
2. The interception of electronic communication.
3. The act of one organism listening for another's calls, so as to exploit them.