Object

• conversation: However, my college friends benefited by borrowing the aids to eavesdrop conversations from behind closed doors!

• mode: She instead looks for a seat at the bar near the group, going into eavesdrop mode.

Preposition: on

• conversation: Let me invite you to eavesdrop on three conversations I've shared or overheard which indicate some of the dimensions of our subject.

• people: I like to eavesdrop on people 's conversations, and on the way out of Millions on Sunday I heard a great one.

• communication: The more complex the encryption algorithm, the more difficult it becomes to eavesdrop on the communications without access to the key.

• meeting: He walks in, wanders around, and eavesdrops on a meeting about investments and developments in African countries.

• dialog: Finally, we eavesdrop on the dialog of fictional young philosophers putting the case for either side of the argument.

Modifying Another Word

• electronically: Under no circumstances could an agency electronically eavesdrop on a person within the United States without such a warrant.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• on: They are also languages whose use allows enclosers to eavesdrop on, " correct " and dominate the conversations of the enclosed.