leakee
English
Etymology
leak + -ee
Noun
leakee (plural leakees)
- One about whom information is leaked.
- 2005, Andrew Rudalevige, The new imperial presidency (page 104)
- 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.
- 2008, Dana Milbank, Homo politicus: the strange and barbaric tribes of the beltway
- The two lobbyists understandably saw no reason to keep their information secret; the law, as everybody understood it, punished leakers, not leakees.
- 2005, Andrew Rudalevige, The new imperial presidency (page 104)