whistleblowing
B1CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
The making of a protected disclosure about wrongdoing, which shields the worker from dismissal or detriment for doing so.
He argued that his dismissal was automatically unfair because it followed his whistleblowing about safety breaches.
Business noun
The act of reporting wrongdoing or malpractice within an organisation to those able to act on it.
Our whistleblowing policy protects staff who report misconduct in good faith.
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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