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informant
[ in-fawr-muhnt ]
/ ÉȘnËfÉr mÉnt /
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noun
a person who informs or gives information; informer.
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.
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Origin of informant
WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH informant
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British Dictionary definitions for informant
informant
/ (ÉȘnËfÉËmÉnt) /
noun
a person who gives information about a thing, a subject being studied, etc
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