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leakee

leakee noun: one about whom information is leaked.

Noun

leakee (plural leakees)

  1. One about whom information is leaked.
    • He went so far as to change substantive policy decisions after they had been leaked to the press in order to undermine the leaker and embarrass the leakee.2005, Andrew Rudalevige, The new imperial presidency, page 104
    • The two lobbyists understandably saw no reason to keep their information secret; the law, as everybody understood it, punished leakers, not leakees.2008, Dana Milbank, Homo politicus: the strange and barbaric tribes of the beltway

Forms of leakee

pluralleakees

Origin of leakee

From leak + -ee.

Questions about leakee

What does leakee mean?
Leakee means one about whom information is leaked.
What part of speech is leakee?
Leakee is a noun.
What is the plural of leakee?
The plural of leakee is leakees.

Words near leakee in the dictionary

  1. Leake
  2. Leake County
  3. leaked
  4. leaked like a sieve
  5. leaked out
  6. leakee
  7. leakees
  8. leakeite
  9. leaker
  10. leakers
  11. Leakes

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