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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
            Synonyms
            Examples for "ci"
            Examples for "ci"
            1
            As to the tomb of the Julian family, see AUGUSTUS, c. ci.
            The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 10: Vespasian
            2
            The wine served by Tang Wan in Lu You's ci poem.
            Enigma of China
            3
            Grant, who began the war smoking his meerschaum pipe, switched full-time to ci gars.
            A. lincoln: a biography
            4
            The First Variations were those on La ci darem, Op.
            Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 1
            5
            Encore vingt ou trente ans de cette vie-ci, et puis nous songerons a nous.
            Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy
            1
            After five years as an informer, I was prepared to believe anything.
            Venus In Copper
            2
            The sneaking figure of the informer was swallowed up in the fog.
            Tales of Chinatown
            3
            In accordance with Indian ideas, the treacherous informer was waylaid and killed.
            The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12
            4
            It was only at that point that he decided to turn informer.
            A quiet vendetta
            5
            The inspector and interpreter followed, while the informer escaped from the house.
            Heathen Slaves and Christian Rulers
            1
            The young barrister had constituted himself the denouncer of this wretched woman.
            Lady Audley's Secret
            2
            He was, it seemed, a red-hot revolutionist; a fierce denouncer of British rule.
            Australia Felix
            3
            Thus the denouncer of Copperheads has now sunk into dependence on their support.
            The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 / A Ma...
            4
            Squin de Florian, the chief denouncer of the Order, died assassinated.
            Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Fr...
            5
            A fierce uproar ensued, and the denouncer of bigotry was compelled to be silent.
            Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer
            1
            Relief flooded through me- Iwouldn'thave to be a stool pigeon.
            Norway to hide: a passport to peril mystery
            2
            To score for a stool pigeon is definitely not ethical.
            Junky
            3
            One day, however, the stool pigeon gave Inspector Val a surprising piece of information.
            The President: A Novel
            4
            He was a stool pigeon for the Justice Department.
            The usual suspects
            5
            He was much better suited to stool pigeon.
            The Laughing Corpse
            1
            Sligo-Leitrim TD Martin Kenny alleged "rogue" gardaí were using criminal informants to entrap and prosecute people.
            The Irish Times
            2
            The department confirmed the stepped up reliance on criminal informants in anti-money laundering investigations, but also declined to discuss probes underway.
            Reuters
            1
            The confidential informant said he wasn't looking for that kind of trouble.
            Eye of vengeance
            2
            Even if he could, Joe didn't want to talk about his confidential informant.
            It Must Be Love
            3
            We had a confidential informant on the service crew handling the refueling job.
            Death angel
            4
            This is a confidential informant working with the Specialized Investigations unit.
            The cold room
            5
            Missed it because he'd been having sex with his confidential informant.
            It Must Be Love
            Portuguese
            fonte
            Catalan
            informador
            Spanish
            fuente

            A person who supplies information.

                  fonte
                  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