leakee

English

Etymology

From leak +‎ -ee.

Noun

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.