leakee

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noun

One about whom information is leaked.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

nounleakee (plural leakees)

plural leakees

  1. One about whom information is leaked.

    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
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    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

Origin

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APA

leakee. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/leakee

MLA

“leakee.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/leakee. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “leakee,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/leakee.

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