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informant

[ in-fawr-muhnt ]

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noun

a person who informs inform or gives information; informer.
Synonyms: , ,
a person who supplies social or cultural data in answer to the questions of an investigator.
Linguistics. a native speaker of a language who supplies utterances and forms for one analyzing or learning the language.

informant

/ ɪ��ˈ��ɔː��ə�Գ� /

noun

a person who gives information about a thing, a subject being studied, etc

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Word History and Origins

Origin of informant¹

1655–65; < Latin ��Դ�ō��Գ�- (stem of ��Դ�ō��Բ� ) present participle of ��Դ�ō��. See inform ¹, -ant

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He took bribes and skimmed cash from informants.

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Rumour had it that some waiters were regime informants.

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In 2022, the Mongols’ dirty laundry was aired in federal court when the club’s longtime lawyer accused its president, David “Little Dave” Santillan, of being a secret informant for the U.S.

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Department of Justice report criticizes the Orange County Sheriff’s Department and the district attorney’s past use of jail informants.

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County Sheriff Lee Baca, convicted in 2017 of thwarting a federal investigation for his role in keeping an informant out of the reach of his FBI handlers and away from a grand jury.

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informal vote in forma pauperis

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