Standard English for someone who secretly listens to others' conversations. The word has a vivid origin: before modern drainage, rain fell from eaves onto the 'eavesdrop' ground below, and those who stood there could hear conversations inside a building. In military slang it was also applied to surveillance aircraft. The everyday sense remains fully current and standard rather than slangy.
She noticed the eavesdropper on the next table leaning in as she described the contract details.
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One who eavesdrops.
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(military, slang) A surveillance aircraft.
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