0 to look around a place secretly, in order to discover things or find out information about someone or something:
1 the act of snooping:
2 to look around a place secretly in order to discover things about it or the people connected with it:
Living in close proximity to each other, neighbours or residents will be snooped upon, discussed in great detail, and perhaps even ridiculed.
They check the creditworthiness of applicants in a way which often amounts to snooping.
They are not persons who go snooping about to see if there is something wrong.
The cost therefore worked out at over £1 per person snooped.
Since the last war, there has been a great growth of private snooping, information gathering and, much worse, information distributing.
After all, that is what snooping is; just deciding off their own bat to sniff around to see whether they can find something wrong somewhere.
Are we quite sure that the snooping element is not going to be used against this great trade union movement?
Surely that is using powers to permit the possibility of snooping on a very large scale indeed.
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