whistleblower
pronunciation
How to pronounce whistleblower in British English:
UK ['wɪsəlˌbləʊə]
How to pronounce whistleblower in American English:
US ['wɪsəlˌbloʊr]
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- Noun:
- an informant who exposes wrongdoing within an organization in the hope of stopping it
Word Origin
- whistleblower (n.)
- also whistle-blower, 1963 in the figurative sense, American English, from whistle (n.) as something sounded in an alert + agent noun from blow (v.1).
Example
- 1. The securities and exchange commission began its own whistleblower programme in 2011 .
- 2. The whistleblower 's claims had not actually been presented to fifa before the select committee published the story .
- 3. And this is the age of the whistleblower if they were all crooks , surely they would get caught .
- 4. On arrival in doha , the guardian was presented by thawadi and alkhater with the news that the whistleblower was retracting her story , saying she made it all up .
- 5. To transmit a document , a whistleblower downloads a piece of software called a tor client and uses it to inject the document into the tor network .