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Leasee vs Leakee - What's the difference?

leasee | leakee |

As nouns the difference between leasee and leakee

is that leasee is (nonstandard) a person who leases something from a lessor; lessee while leakee is one about whom information is leaked.

leasee

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (nonstandard) A person who leases something from a lessor; lessee.

    • 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 .