leakee

noun

Etymology

From leak + -ee.

  1. derived from *leg-
  2. inherited from *lekaną
  3. derived from leka
  4. derived from leken
  5. inherited from *lecan
  6. inherited from leken
  7. suffixed as leakee — “leak + ee

Definitions

  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.
    • The two lobbyists understandably saw no reason to keep their information secret; the law, as everybody understood it, punished leakers, not leakees.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA