whistleblower

See also: whistle-blower

English

Noun

whistleblower (plural whistleblowers)

1. Alternative form of whistle-blower

Danish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English whistle-blower.

Noun

whistleblower

1. 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)

     Obamaregeringen, som har stået for flere retssager mod whistleblowere, end alle hans^{[sic – meaning dens]} forgængere til sammen, ...

     The Obama administration, which has been responsible for more trials against whistle-blowers than all his^{[sic – meaning its]} predecessors taken together, ...

Declension

Declension of whistleblower

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	whistleblower	whistlebloweren	whistleblowere	whistleblowerne
genitive	whistleblowers	whistleblowerens	whistlebloweres	whistleblowernes