Whistle-blower

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  whistle-blower
       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"


           [syn: {whistle blower}, {whistleblower}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  whistleblower
       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"
           [syn: {whistle blower}, {whistle-blower}]