Dictionary

leaker en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English leak Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English leaker From leak + -er.

Meanings

1. Somebody who leaks information.
   • Whereas the government had to dig up a nearly 150-year-old case to support its aiding-the-enemy charge, it has had an easier time using the Espionage Act against Manning and other leakers. 2019, Jason Ross Arnold, Whistleblowers, Leakers, and Their Networks: From Snowden to Samizdat, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 121:
2. Anything that leaks.
   • The team decided on a group comparison with eight leakers and eight nonleakers. They selected eight trucks that had failed the leak test with an upper ditch leak. Obtaining trucks that did not leak was more difficult […] 2005, Stefan H. Steiner, R. Jock MacKay, Statistical Engineering:

Forms

Deriveds

nonleaker

Translations (4)

pt vazador (anything that leaks) · pt vazadora (somebody who leaks information) · pt vazador (somebody who leaks information) · pt vazadora (anything that leaks)