"leakee" meaning in All languages combined

See leakee on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: leakees [plural]
Etymology: From leak + -ee. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|leak|ee}} leak + -ee Head templates: {{en-noun}} leakee (plural leakees)
  1. One about whom information is leaked.

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2008, Dana Milbank, Homo politicus: the strange and barbaric tribes of the beltway:",
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