WHISTLE-BLOWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does whistle-blower mean? 

• WHISTLE-BLOWER (noun)
  The noun WHISTLE-BLOWER has 1 sense:

1. an informant who exposes wrongdoing within an organization in the hope of stopping it

  Familiarity information: WHISTLE-BLOWER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHISTLE-BLOWER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An informant who exposes wrongdoing within an organization in the hope of stopping it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

whistle-blower; whistle blower; whistleblower

Context example:

the whistleblower was fired for exposing the conditions in mental hospitals

Hypernyms ("whistle-blower" is a kind of...):

informant; source (a person who supplies information)