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LEAKER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does leaker mean?
• LEAKER (noun)
The noun LEAKER has 1 sense:
1. a surreptitious informant
Familiarity information: LEAKER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A surreptitious informant
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Context example:
the president wanted to know who the leakers were
Hypernyms ("leaker" is a kind of...):
informant; source (a person who supplies information)
Derivation:
leak (be leaked)
leak (tell anonymously)
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