whistleblower
Appearance
See also: whistle-blower
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]whistleblower (plural whistleblowers)
- Alternative form of whistle-blower
Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English whistle-blower.
Noun
[edit]whistleblower
- whistle-blower ((former) public employee who informs the general populace about breaches of law)
- 2016, Bastian Obermayer, Frederik Obermaier, Panama Papers: Historien om en verdensomspændende afsløring, Politikens Forlag, →ISBN:
- ... whistleblowere og aktivister i USA og Europa har fået ødelagt deres liv ...
- ... whistle-blowers and activists in USA and Europe have had their lives destroyed ...
- 2013, Charlotte Langkilde, Bedraget – Sagen om Nordisk Fjer, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:
- Jeg har stillet mange whistleblowere spørgsmålet, om det var det hele værd.
- I have asked many whistle-blowers whether it was worth it all.
- 2014, Glenn Greenwald (tr. by Niels Ivar Larsen), Overvåget, Informations Forlag (→ISBN)
Declension
[edit]Declension of whistleblower
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | whistleblower | whistlebloweren | whistleblowere | whistleblowerne |
genitive | whistleblowers | whistleblowerens | whistlebloweres | whistleblowernes |