"whistle-blow" meaning in All languages combined

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        "1": "en",
        "2": "whistleblowing"
      },
      "expansion": "Back-formation from whistleblowing",
      "name": "back-form"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Back-formation from whistleblowing or whistleblower.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "whistle-blows",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "whistle-blowing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "whistle-blew",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "whistle-blown",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "whistle-blows",
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      },
      "expansion": "whistle-blow (third-person singular simple present whistle-blows, present participle whistle-blowing, simple past whistle-blew, past participle whistle-blown)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
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          "name": "English back-formations",
          "parents": [],
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        },
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            "Entry maintenance"
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        {
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2002, Kipling D. Williams, Ostracism: The Power of Silence, →ISBN, page 201:",
          "text": "It was at this point that 46 (77%) of the participants whistleblew (in writing) on the cheating confederate.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Cynthia Jeffrey, Research on Professional Responsibility and Ethics, →ISBN, page 215:",
          "text": "Students who had whistle-blown in the past provided fewer reasons not to whistle-blow than other students.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To blow the whistle (on); to report (as a whistleblower)."
      ],
      "id": "en-whistle-blow-en-verb-OlTD2Wp1",
      "links": [
        [
          "blow the whistle",
          "blow the whistle"
        ],
        [
          "whistleblower",
          "whistleblower"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) To blow the whistle (on); to report (as a whistleblower)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "whistleblow"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "whistle-blow"
}

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  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "whistleblowing"
      },
      "expansion": "Back-formation from whistleblowing",
      "name": "back-form"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Back-formation from whistleblowing or whistleblower.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "whistle-blows",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "whistle-blowing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "whistle-blew",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "whistle-blown",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "whistle-blows",
        "2": "whistle-blowing",
        "3": "whistle-blew",
        "4": "whistle-blown"
      },
      "expansion": "whistle-blow (third-person singular simple present whistle-blows, present participle whistle-blowing, simple past whistle-blew, past participle whistle-blown)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English back-formations",
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        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
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        "English terms with rare senses",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2002, Kipling D. Williams, Ostracism: The Power of Silence, →ISBN, page 201:",
          "text": "It was at this point that 46 (77%) of the participants whistleblew (in writing) on the cheating confederate.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Cynthia Jeffrey, Research on Professional Responsibility and Ethics, →ISBN, page 215:",
          "text": "Students who had whistle-blown in the past provided fewer reasons not to whistle-blow than other students.",
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        }
      ],
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        "To blow the whistle (on); to report (as a whistleblower)."
      ],
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          "blow the whistle"
        ],
        [
          "whistleblower",
          "whistleblower"
        ]
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        "(rare) To blow the whistle (on); to report (as a whistleblower)."
      ],
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        "rare"
      ]
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "whistleblow"
    }
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}