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What does whistle-blow mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word whistle-blow? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (rare) To blow the whistle (on); to report (as a whistleblower).
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Many nurses face bullying and being belittled when they try to whistle-blow, a survey suggests.
Sneaking in one law behind another more headline-grabbing one and making it harder for insiders to whistle-blow on corrupt Vatican dealings?
Jeremy Hunt told the Daily Mail said he wanted to see a clampdown on such practices and would seek to introduce wording into agreements making it clear people could still whistle-blow.
A vocalization of similar volume from elephants has been shown to carry 9.8 km and the whistle-blow may carry as far.
Students who had whistle-blown in the past provided fewer reasons not to whistle-blow than other students.
The whistle-blow is the loudest of the vocalizations, loud enough to make the iron bars in the zoo enclosure where the rhinos were studied vibrate.

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