Extended Open Multilingual Wordnet 1.3

10777400-n 'an informant who exposes wrongdoing within an organization in the hope of stopping it';

English

whistle blower , whistle-blower , whistleblower

Definitions

English: 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
Japanese: それを止めることを願って組織内で不正を暴露する情報提供者
― 法律は、公衆は何が起こっているかを知る権利があると感じている内部告発者をほとんど護らない; 内部告発者は、精神病院の状況を暴露し、首になった

Relations

Hypernym:	informant
Semantic Field:	person_n

External Links

TempoWN: ◁ △ ▶ (Past: 0.000; Present: 0.002; Future: 0.990)

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Seen Lemmas: perusuh;