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leakee - What does it mean?

Definition of 'leakee'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • One about whom information is leaked.
  • * 2005 , Andrew Rudalevige, The new imperial presidency (page 104)
  • 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 .
  • * 2008 , Dana Milbank, Homo politicus: the strange and barbaric tribes of the beltway
  • The two lobbyists understandably saw no reason to keep their information secret; the law, as everybody understood it, punished leakers, not leakees .