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leakee en · NOUN

Etymology

From leak + -ee.

Meanings

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

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