What does listen in mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. listen inverb

    listen quietly, without contributing to the conversation

  2. listen in, eavesdropverb

    listen without the speaker's knowledge

    "the jealous man was eavesdropping on his wife's conversations"

Wiktionary

  1. listen inverb

    To listen without participating.

  2. listen inverb

    To eavesdrop; to listen secretly.

ChatGPT

  1. listen in

    Listen in refers to the act of quietly hearing or secretly paying attention to a conversation or discussion without participating in it. It often implies intentionally trying to hear something that one is not explicitly invited to join.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of listen in in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of listen in in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of listen in in a Sentence

  1. Randall Stephenson:

    The biggest risk is not that the Chinese government might listen in on our conversations or mine our data if we use their equipment.

  2. Gabe Roth:

    This is getting ridiculous. If The Court can conduct The Court weekly conferences remotely, which The Court has been doing for weeks, The Court can conduct The Court remaining arguments remotely and allow the public to listen in.

  3. Robert Bresson:

    Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.

  4. Kim Myung-jun:

    Once you listen in, you tend to keep listening under the blanket. It gets you addicted, aM radio stations like Far East Broadcasting Company have pretty good signals and can be listened to clearly in much of North Korea.

  5. Pete Geren:

    He would sit and listen in meetings, offer an occasional comment. But when it was over, he would go to his boss and tell him this is what we should do.


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