leaker

English

Etymology

leak +‎ -er

Noun

leaker (plural leakers)

1. Somebody who leaks information.
   • 2019, Jason Ross Arnold, Whistleblowers, Leakers, and Their Networks: From Snowden to Samizdat, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 121:

     Whereas the government had to dig up a nearly 150-year-old case to support its aiding-the-enemy charge, it has had an easier time using the Espionage Act against Manning and other leakers.

2. Anything that leaks.
   • 2005, Stefan H. Steiner, R. Jock MacKay, Statistical Engineering:

     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 […]

Anagrams

• Karlee