• n.
    ⦿an informant who exposes wrongdoing within an organization in the hope of stopping it

Semantic relations

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
wn:example
  1. ⦿the law gives little protection to whistleblowers who feel the public has a right to know what is going on
  2. ⦿the whistleblower was fired for exposing the conditions in mental hospitals
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:whistle blower
  2. enl:whistle-blower
  3. enl:whistleblower
wn:interlingual indexili:i94102

Other

dc:Subjectnoun.person
skos:is in schemehttps://en-word.net/
rdfs:labelwhistle blowerwhistle-blowerwhistleblower