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nonleaker en · NOUN

Etymology

From non- + leaker.

Meanings

1. One who, or that which, does not leak.
   • 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:
   • […] praising someone as a nonleaker is an ancient journalistic device to protect sources. 1975, New York Magazine, volume 8, number 39, page 8:

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