Leaker
noun ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Somebody who leaks information.
"Whereas the government had to dig up a nearly 150-year-old case to support its aiding-the-enemy charge, it has had an easier time using the Espionage Act against Manning and other leakers."
- 2 a surreptitious informant wordnet
- 3 Anything that leaks.
"The team decided on a group comparison with eight leakers and eight nonleakers. They selected eight trucks that had failed the leak test with an upper ditch leak. Obtaining trucks that did not leak was more difficult […]"
Example
More examples"Whereas the government had to dig up a nearly 150-year-old case to support its aiding-the-enemy charge, it has had an easier time using the Espionage Act against Manning and other leakers."
Etymology
From leak + -er.
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