whistleblower

Nouns

  • (n) an informant who exposes wrongdoing within an organization in the hope of stopping it
    • the law gives little protection to whistleblowers who feel the public has a right to know what is going on
    • the whistleblower was fired for exposing the conditions in mental hospitals
    whistle blower, whistle-blower,

Synonyms

whistle blower

Words of close approximity