informant
- 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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rat, sneak, source, fink, stoolie, snitch, tattletale, canary, nark, tipsterExamples from the Web for informant
Contemporary Examples of informant
She needs to make sure the informant is alive, but he needs him dead.
‘The Good Wife’ Star Mike Colter Defends Lemond Bishop’s Killer InstinctsKevin Fallon
September 29, 2014
In April of this year, the FBI tried to recruit a member of the Guantanamo defense team as an informant.
Instead, he was offered a deal: permission to stay, if he became an informant.
They want the benefits of being an informant and the income from doing something illegal.
Prosecutors claim that Monsegur helped prevent as many as 300 cyberattacks during his time as an informant.
Historical Examples of informant
She said this calmly and quietly, as though to impress her informant and reassure him.
DustMr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
But how would he know this; surely you would not become the informant?
The informant has always met with misfortune, accident—whatever you like to call it.
The Night RidersRidgwell Cullum
It only hopes that your Holiness will require your informant to do so.
The Eternal CityHall Caine
Accordingly the ephors questioned their informant: "How say you the occurrence is to take place?"
HellenicaXenophon
informant
- a person who gives information about a thing, a subject being studied, etc