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Meanings of informant in English
Person who provides privileged information about a person or organization to an agency.
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Examples for "ci"
Examples for "ci"
1
As to the tomb of the Julian family, see AUGUSTUS, c. ci.
2
The wine served by Tang Wan in Lu You's ci poem.
3
Grant, who began the war smoking his meerschaum pipe, switched full-time to ci gars.
4
The First Variations were those on La ci darem, Op.
5
Encore vingt ou trente ans de cette vie-ci, et puis nous songerons a nous.
1
After five years as an informer, I was prepared to believe anything.
2
The sneaking figure of the informer was swallowed up in the fog.
3
In accordance with Indian ideas, the treacherous informer was waylaid and killed.
4
It was only at that point that he decided to turn informer.
5
The inspector and interpreter followed, while the informer escaped from the house.
1
The young barrister had constituted himself the denouncer of this wretched woman.
2
He was, it seemed, a red-hot revolutionist; a fierce denouncer of British rule.
3
Thus the denouncer of Copperheads has now sunk into dependence on their support.
4
Squin de Florian, the chief denouncer of the Order, died assassinated.
5
A fierce uproar ensued, and the denouncer of bigotry was compelled to be silent.
1
Relief flooded through me- Iwouldn'thave to be a stool pigeon.
2
To score for a stool pigeon is definitely not ethical.
3
One day, however, the stool pigeon gave Inspector Val a surprising piece of information.
4
He was a stool pigeon for the Justice Department.
5
He was much better suited to stool pigeon.
1
Sligo-Leitrim TD Martin Kenny alleged "rogue" gardaí were using criminal informants to entrap and prosecute people.
2
The department confirmed the stepped up reliance on criminal informants in anti-money laundering investigations, but also declined to discuss probes underway.
1
The confidential informant said he wasn't looking for that kind of trouble.
2
Even if he could, Joe didn't want to talk about his confidential informant.
3
We had a confidential informant on the service crew handling the refueling job.
4
This is a confidential informant working with the Specialized Investigations unit.
5
Missed it because he'd been having sex with his confidential informant.
Usage of informant in English
1
U.S. media reports have described the informant as a high-level CIA source.
2
Sources of information for CAI ratings included the patient and an informant.
3
A police informant made the allegations against Silva in a news conference.
4
Hoffa was also known to have become a government informant against Fitzsimmons.
5
The confidential informant said he wasn't looking for that kind of trouble.
6
He's been a credible and productive informant in our system for years.
7
So a second informant was deployed: an Albanian man called Besnik Bakalli.
8
Does that mean he was working for the police as an informant?
9
The quality of the apples in the pies supports my informant's contention.
10
The office informant later told me that I had been dubbed: aggressive.
11
Locks had obtained all the information about it via his computer informant.
12
According to my informant the Byr is two hundred yards in depth.
13
I suppose your informant told you how dangerous he is to us?
14
To every station and listening post, every source and informant we have.
15
Myrie, 37, argued unsuccessfully that he was entrapped by a government informant.
16
My informant tells me he saw the latter leaving the steam-packet office.
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