different between whistleblower vs whistleblowing

English

Noun

whistleblower (plural whistleblowers)

1. Alternative form of whistle-blower

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English whistle-blower.

Noun

whistleblower

1. 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^{[sic, meaning dens]} forgængere til sammen, ...

     The Obama administration, which has been responsible for more trials against whistle-blowers than all his^{[sic, meaning its]} predecessors taken together, ...

Declension

English

Etymology

whistle +? blowing

Noun

whistleblowing (usually uncountable, plural whistleblowings)

1. The disclosure to the public or to authorities, such as by an employee, of wrongdoing.

Related terms

• whistleblower

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