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leaker

leaker noun: somebody who leaks information.

Noun

leaker (plural leakers)

  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.2019, Jason Ross Arnold, Whistleblowers, Leakers, and Their Networks: From Snowden to Samizdat, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 121
  2. 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 […]2005, Stefan H. Steiner, R. Jock MacKay, Statistical Engineering

Forms of leaker

pluralleakers

Plural of leaker: leakers

Origin of leaker

From leak + -er.

Words formed from leaker

Questions about leaker

What does leaker mean?
Leaker means somebody who leaks information.
What part of speech is leaker?
Leaker is a noun.
What is the plural of leaker?
The plural of leaker is leakers.

Words near leaker in the dictionary

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

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