whistleblower
A2CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
A worker who discloses information about wrongdoing and gains protection against reprisal.
As a whistleblower, she was shielded from dismissal for reporting the safety breaches.
Business noun
An insider who reports wrongdoing within an organisation to authorities or the public.
Robust whistleblower protections encouraged staff to flag the procurement fraud early.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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