listening post

noun

: a center for monitoring electronic communications (as of an enemy)

Examples of listening post in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Since occupying the territory, Israel has installed listening posts and military bases. Mireille Rebeiz, The Conversation, 30 July 2024 The bunker was built to serve as a listening post manned by three people. Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Sep. 2024 If not, that would mean routers were independently infected by three financially motivated groups in addition to Pawn Storm, further underscoring the ongoing rush by multiple threat groups to establish secret listening posts inside routers. Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 2 May 2024 In the late 1920s and early 1930s, as an ambitious young State Department officer, Kennan toggled between Germany, Estonia, and Latvia, working hard to develop facility in the Russian language and serving from 1931 to 1933 at the Soviet listening post in Riga. Fredrik Logevall, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022 See all Example Sentences for listening post 

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Word History

First Known Use

1942, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of listening post was in 1942

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“Listening post.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/listening%20post. Accessed 13 Oct. 2024.

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