0 present participle of snoop
1 to look around a place secretly, in order to discover things or find out information about someone or something:
Nor should there be any snooping through medical records, or entry into areas of the workplace that genuine patients do not ordinarily observe.
But again, the effects of data snooping become more pronounced at longer horizon.
Of course, both implicit and explicit maximization of predictability are forms of data snooping or data mining and may bias classical statistical inferences.
Some of the more established tenants viewed gossip as a feature of social decline, sometimes singling out particular people as snooping busy-bodies, whose presence undermined the generally convivial atmosphere.
Generally speaking, people do not keep churns in their houses, so that any snooping about churns probably would not be of a domestic character.
It does not involve snooping in any way.
It is not a case of snooping around asking for things sub rosa.
Apparently the result of the snooping is to be reported to higher levels.
