whistleblower

1. 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”

   Synonymswhistle blowerwhistle-blower

   Broaderinformant

Other forms of whistleblower

plural

whistleblowers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about whistleblower

What does whistleblower mean?

whistleblower means "an informant who exposes wrongdoing within an organization in the hope of stopping it".

How many syllables are in whistleblower?

whistleblower has 4 syllables: whist-le-blo-wer. The stress falls on "whist". In IPA it is /ˈwɪsəlˌbloʊɚ/.

What is another word for whistleblower?

Close synonyms include whistle blower, whistle-blower. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is whistleblower a common word?

whistleblower is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with whistleblower?

2 words rhyme with whistleblower. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.