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Leaker vs Leakee - What's the difference?

leaker | leakee |

As nouns the difference between leaker and leakee

is that leaker is somebody who leaks information while leakee is one about whom information is leaked.

leaker

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Somebody who leaks information.
    • English agent nouns

    leakee

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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 .