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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.

fonte
Synonyms
Examples for "source"
Examples for "source"
1
A senior government source said: We know what companies' investment criteria is.
The Guardian
2
People are getting back to work, a North Sea trade source said.
Reuters
3
GM officials said their position would not change, however, the source said.
Reuters
4
Meat inspectors may qualify for 30 days' notice, said an industry source.
Reuters
5
A second source said the additional job cuts could number several thousand.
The Irish Times
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