Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
an informant who exposes wrongdoing within an organization in the hope of stopping it;
- Example: "the law gives little protection to whistleblowers who feel the public has a right to know what is going on"- Example: "the whistleblower was fired for exposing the conditions in mental hospitals"[syn: whistle blower, whistle-blower, whistleblower]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
whistle-blower
n 1: 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"
[syn: whistle blower, whistle-blower, whistleblower]