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Meanings of informant in English

Russian
стукач
Portuguese
informante
Spanish
soplón

Person who provides privileged information about a person or organization to an agency.

      Related terms
      стукач
      Portuguese
      testemunha
      Catalan
      testimoni
      Spanish
      testigo

      Someone who sees an event and reports what happened.

            testemunha
            Portuguese
            fonte
            Catalan
            informador
            Spanish
            fuente

            A person who supplies information.

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                  Usage of informant in English
                  1
                  U.S. media reports have described the informant as a high-level CIA source.
                  Reuters
                  2
                  Sources of information for CAI ratings included the patient and an informant.
                  Pubmed
                  3
                  A police informant made the allegations against Silva in a news conference.
                  Reuters
                  4
                  Hoffa was also known to have become a government informant against Fitzsimmons.
                  The outfit: the role of chicago's underworld in the shaping of m...
                  5
                  The confidential informant said he wasn't looking for that kind of trouble.
                  Eye of vengeance
                  6
                  He's been a credible and productive informant in our system for years.
                  Deadly Heat
                  7
                  So a second informant was deployed: an Albanian man called Besnik Bakalli.
                  The Guardian
                  8
                  Does that mean he was working for the police as an informant?
                  Calamity jayne
                  9
                  The quality of the apples in the pies supports my informant's contention.
                  The Subterranean Brotherhood
                  10
                  The office informant later told me that I had been dubbed: aggressive.
                  Feminist dot com
                  11
                  Locks had obtained all the information about it via his computer informant.
                  Dayworld Rebel
                  12
                  According to my informant the Byr is two hundred yards in depth.
                  Travels in Syria and the Holy Land
                  13
                  I suppose your informant told you how dangerous he is to us?
                  Dayworld
                  14
                  To every station and listening post, every source and informant we have.
                  The bourne identity
                  15
                  Myrie, 37, argued unsuccessfully that he was entrapped by a government informant.
                  Reuters
                  16
                  My informant tells me he saw the latter leaving the steam-packet office.
                  The Man in the Twilight