informant
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++in·for·mant /ɪnˈfɔːmənt $ -ɔːr-/ ●○○ noun [countable] 1 SCPTELLsomeone who secretly gives the police, the army etc information about someone else 〔向警方、军队等〕提供秘密消息者，线人，告密者 SYN informer One of the witnesses was a paid informant for the FBI. 目击者之一是联邦调查局出钱雇用的线人。2. technicalSL someone who gives information about their language, social customs etc to someone who is studying them 〔为研究者提供语言、风俗等资料的〕资料提供人Examples from the Corpus
informant• Working as an informant, Johnson provided the FBI with details on the Mafia's criminal activities.• Betty Bell was the chief informant about Harold Shoosmith for she had been engaged for three mornings and three evenings a week.• Provenzano is suspected of having informants at senior levels, as well as friends among Sicily's left-wing politicians.• Key informants in universities and government agencies provided assistance in locating and gaining access to the relevant documents.• The schedule for these standard interviews will be piloted by extended semi-structured interviews with shop stewards and key management informants.• In the interview, it is stressed that the informant should direct the discussion because the ethnographer becomes the learner.• The informant showed gun crates marked with the names of Norinco and Poly Technologies to an undercover agent.• The establishment of personal relationships was not as crucial during the study of the known sector where informants had been randomly sampled.• It is also noticeable that slightly fewer men than women informants reveal any significant memory.in·for·mant nounChineseSyllable
who Corpus the army the secretly someone gives police,
informant
in‧for‧mant /ɪnˈfɔːmənt $ -ɔːr-/
noun [countable]
SYN informer:
One of the witnesses was a paid informant for the FBI.
2. technical someone who gives information about their language, social customs etc to someone who is studying them
in‧for‧mant /ɪnˈfɔːmənt $ -ɔːr-/
noun [countable] Word Family: noun: informant, information, informer, misinformation, disinformation; verb: inform, misinform; adjective: informative ≠ UNINFORMATIVE, informed ≠ uninformed; adverb: informatively
1. someone who secretly gives the police, the army etc information about someone else SYN informer:
2. technical someone who gives information about their language, social customs etc to someone who is studying them