Usually means: Unintended release of confidential information.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word leak:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. leak: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. leak: Merriam-Webster
  3. leak: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. leak: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. leak: Collins English Dictionary
  6. leak: Vocabulary.com
  7. Leak, leak: Wordnik
  8. leak: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Leak, leak: Wiktionary
  10. leak: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. leak: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. leak: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Leak, leak: Dictionary.com
  14. leak (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. leak: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. LEAK, Leak (disambiguation), Leak (film), Leak, The Leak: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Leak: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. leak: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. leak: Rhymezone
  20. leak: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. leak: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. leak: FreeDictionary.org
  23. leak: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. leak: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. leak: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. leak: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. leak: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. leak: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. leak: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. leak: Idioms

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. leak, leak: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. leak: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Leak: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. Leak, The leak: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Leak: Dan's Poker
  2. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Leak: Poker Terms

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See leaked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
noun:  The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
noun:  A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.
noun:  The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.
noun:  A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation, or the point where it occurs.
noun:  (computing) The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.
noun:  (mildly vulgar, slang, especially with the verb "take") An act of urination.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed.
verb:  (intransitive) (of a fluid or gas) To pass through an opening that should be sealed.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously.
verb:  (intransitive, figurative, by extension) To pass through when it would normally or preferably be blocked.
verb:  (transitive, figurative, by extension) To allow anything through that would normally or preferably be blocked.
verb:  (slang, sometimes euphemistic) To urinate.
verb:  (slang, US) To bleed.
adjective:  (obsolete) Leaky.
noun:  A surname.

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