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informant
Found in thesaurus: communicator, verbalizer, speaker, talker, verbaliser, utterer, percipient, perceiver, observer, beholder
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informant
n.
one who provides information or intelligence, informer, source
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Informant
An informant is a person who provides privileged information about a person or organization to an agency. The term is usually used within the law enforcement world, where they are officially known as confidential or criminal informants (CI), and can often refer pejoratively to the supply of information without the consent of the other parties with the intent of malicious, personal or financial gain. However, the term is used in politics, industry and academia.
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informant
Noun
1. a person who supplies information
(synonym) source
(hypernym) communicator
(hyponym) informer, betrayer, rat, squealer, blabber
(derivation) inform
2. someone who sees an event and reports what happened
(synonym) witness, witnesser
(hypernym) perceiver, observer, beholder
(hyponym) attester, attestant
(derivation) inform
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Informant (der)
nm.
informant, one who provides information or intelligence, informer, source; (Slang) fink, grass, snitch
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informer
v.
inform, tell, report; apprise, acquaint; communicate, convey; denounce
