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English
Noun
whistleblower (plural whistleblowers)
- Alternative form of whistle-blower
Danish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English whistle-blower.
Noun
whistleblower
- whistle-blower ((former) public employee who informs the general populace about breaches of law)
2016, Bastian Obermayer, Frederik Obermaier, Panama Papers: Historien om en verdensomspændende afsløring, Politikens Forlag, →ISBN:... whistleblowere og aktivister i USA og Europa har fået ødelagt deres liv ...- ... whistle-blowers and activists in USA and Europe have had their lives destroyed ...
2013, Charlotte Langkilde, Bedraget – Sagen om Nordisk Fjer, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:Jeg har stillet mange whistleblowere spørgsmålet, om det var det hele værd.- I have asked many whistle-blowers whether it was worth it all.
- 2014, Glenn Greenwald (tr. by Niels Ivar Larsen), Overvåget, Informations Forlag (→ISBN)
Obamaregeringen, som har stået for flere retssager mod whistleblowere, end alle hans forgængere til sammen, ...- The Obama administration, which has been responsible for more trials against whistle-blowers than all his predecessors taken together, ...
Declension
Declension of whistleblower