• n.
    ⦿an informant who exposes wrongdoing within an organization in the hope of stopping it
    lexical concept
  • the law gives little protection to whistleblowers who feel the public has a right to know what is going on
  • the whistleblower was fired for exposing the conditions in mental hospitals

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Lexical context

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  1. enl:whistle blower
  2. enl:whistle-blower
  3. enl:whistleblower
wn:interlingual indexili:i94102

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelwhistle blowerwhistle-blowerwhistleblower