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Originally Posted by N_Jay
You may want to double check.
Several dictionaries include the reception of a transmission (as opposed to the stopping)
i.e. to receive (a communication or signal directed elsewhere) usually secretly.
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Yes, but the term leads to some very erroneous misconceptions. It is one thing to "intercept" communications on a land-line. That usually involves a physical connection to the media. But to do so with a radio signal?
Oh well, score another one for the ignorant lawyers and intelligence agencies who make up such horrible abuses of the language.