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  • noun Plural form of tipoff.

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Examples

  • The DP was reacting to reports that Defence Intelligence had approached several journalists to supply information and analyses in return for "tipoffs" and improved access to the official intelligence community.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • Care services minister Paul Burstow said he was shocked by the revelations and had authorised a series of random, unannounced inspections of similar units by the Care Quality Commission CQC, the sector regulator which has itself apologised for failing to act on earlier tipoffs about the Castlebeck facility.

    Abuse at leading care home leads to police inspections of private hospitals 2011

  • Libel suits and settlement payouts are common, papers regularly pay for interviews with people in the spotlight and police have been known to get cash for tabloid tipoffs.

    UK Police Reopen Inquiry Into Scandal At Murdoch Paper AP 2011

  • Libel suits and settlement payouts are common, papers regularly pay for interviews with people in the spotlight and police have been known to get cash for tabloid tipoffs.

    UK Police Reopen Inquiry Into Scandal At Murdoch Paper AP 2011

  • Well, as we all know that the way to beat Global Terrorism is a combination of scaremongering posters, community suspicion and anonymous tipoffs, the wonderful and inventive readers of BoingBoing have come up with a few posters of their own.

    Anti-Terror Posters from BoingBoing Dungeekin 2009

  • The user is believed to have found the information after acting on hints published in several media outlets and on the WikiLeaks Twitter feed, all of which cited a member of rival whistleblowing website OpenLeaks as the original source of the tipoffs.

    Unredacted US embassy cables available online after WikiLeaks breach 2011

  • Well, as we all know that the way to beat Global Terrorism is a combination of scaremongering posters, community suspicion and anonymous tipoffs, the wonderful and inventive readers of BoingBoing have come up with a few posters of their own.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Dungeekin 2009

  • The agency is looking for such tipoffs in its letter to the CFOs.

    SEC Queries Firms on Repos Fawn Johnson 2010

  • The agency is looking for such tipoffs in its letter to the CFOs.

    SEC Queries Firms on Repos Fawn Johnson 2010

  • The agency is looking for such tipoffs in its letter to the CFOs.

    SEC Queries Firms on Repos Fawn Johnson 2010

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