leakee

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English

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Etymology

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From leak +‎ -ee.

Noun

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leakee (plural leakees)

  1. 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.