Meanings
plural leakers
- 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 - 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
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Translations
Portuguese vazador, vazadora
- vazadorsomebody who leaks information
- vazadorasomebody who leaks information
- vazadoranything that leaks
- vazadoraanything that leaks
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leaker. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/leaker
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