Instead of fixing the problem, the company fired the whistle-blower.
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Whistle-blower
Synonyms for "whistle-blower" (51 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (15)
Related words (25)
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59 translations across 30 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- ազդարար noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
Bashkir
1 entries- ошаҡсы noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 吹哨人 noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
- 吹哨者 noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
Czech
1 entries- informátor noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
Danish
1 entries- whistleblower noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
Dutch
1 entries- klokkenluider noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
Finnish
1 entries- ilmiantaja noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
French
4 entries- dénonciateur noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
- dénonciatrice noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
- lanceur d'alerte noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
- lanceuse d'alerte noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
Galician
3 entries- chileta noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
- lengoreteiro noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
- malsín noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
Georgian
3 entries- დამსმენი noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
- ინფორმატორი noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
- მომხსენებელი noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
German
4 entries- Enthüller noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
- Hinweisgeber noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
- Hinweisgeberin noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
- Skandalaufdecker noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
Hungarian
1 entries- informátor noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
Icelandic
1 entries- uppljóstrari noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
Indonesian
2 entries- pelapor noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
- pelapor pelanggaran noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
Irish
1 entries- sceithire noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
Italian
1 entries- informatore noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
Japanese
1 entries- 内部告発者 noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
Korean
1 entries- 내부고발자 noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
Macedonian
1 entries- свиркач noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
Malay
1 entries- pemberi maklumat noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
Norwegian
2 entries- fløyteblåser noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
- varsler noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
Polish
2 entries- sygnalista noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
- sygnalistka noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
Portuguese
1 entries- delator noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
Russian
4 entries- доно́счик noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
- доно́счица noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
- информа́тор noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
- осведоми́тель noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- zviždač noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
- звиждач noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
Spanish
4 entries- alcaucil noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
- alertador noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
- delator en su trabajo noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
- denunciante noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
Swedish
1 entries- visselblåsare noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
Turkish
1 entries- muhbir noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
Ukrainian
2 entries- інформа́тор noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
- інформа́торка noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
Vietnamese
3 entries- người thổi còi noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
- người tố cáo noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
- người tố giác noun (one who reports a problem or violation to the authorities)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Having dropped out of school, Tom worked as a whistle-blower, a.k.a. a football referee.
Source: tatoeba (3449940)
We owe it to a small group of brave whistle-blowers that we know about the infractions at all.
Source: wiktionary
As my study proceeded, I began to see that an investigation of organizational morality should also explore managerial dissenters, so-called whistleblowers, many of whom take stands against their organizations on grounds that they define as moral.
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