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LEAKER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A surreptitious informant

Example:

the president wanted to know who the leakers were

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("leaker" is a kind of...):

informant; source (a person who supplies information)

Derivation:

leak (be leaked)

leak (tell anonymously)

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