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earshot

 
 
/ˈɪəʃɒt/ noun

Translation

be out of/within earshot If you are out of earshot, you are too far away to hear something, and if you are within earshot, you are close enough to hear something.
kulağın işiteceği/duyamayacağı/ duyabileceği uzaklıkta olmak
As soon as she was out of earshot, they started talking again.1086
(Definition of earshot noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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