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informant::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | source |
| Type of | communicator |
| Has types | squealer, betrayer, rat, blabber, whistle blower, whistle-blower, informer, leaker, passive source, whistleblower |
| Derivation | inform |
Examples of informant
informant
The informant felt he was being set-up and taped his conversations with the FBI.
From the infowars.com
Got a text from a well-sourced informant earlier this evening about Elton Brand.
From the newsday.com
Mrs. O'Leary said one informant once sent the couple a wedding anniversary card.
From the post-gazette.com
The informant told an FBI agent the prize was part of a money-laundering scheme.
From the charlotteobserver.com
It was fake, provided to this brother by what turned out to be an FBI informant.
From the infowars.com
Michael is able to convince the cartel that Desantos is a cooperating informant.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Lucas's sentence of 70 years was reduced to five years after his informant work.
From the edition.cnn.com
Turner was convicted in October of taking a $1,000 bribe from an FBI informant.
From the bostonherald.com
Though widespread, the costs of informant policies are not equally distributed.
From the cnn.com
- A person who supplies information
- Witness: someone who sees an event and reports what happened
- An informant or consultant in linguistics is a native speaker who acts as a linguistic reference for a language being studied. ...
- In psychiatry, an informant is someone who can report on a case without causing observer effects. For example, informants may be family members or friends of a psychiatric patient. ...
- The Informant! is a 2009 American biographical comedy crime film directed by Steven Soderbergh. It depicts Mark Whitacre's involvement as a whistle blower in the lysine price-fixing conspiracy of the mid-1990s as described in the 2000 nonfiction book The Informant, by journalist Kurt Eichenwald. ...
- The Informant is a 1997 cable TV movie produced by Showtime, starring Cary Elwes and Timothy Dalton based upon the book Field of Blood by Gerald Seymour. It tells the story of Sean Pius McAnally ("Gingy") and the journey he makes on his way to becoming a supergrass.
- One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer
- (Informants) The people who will (or should) give you information that will help you to evaluate the project
- (Informance) A sharing or showing of music that demonstrates the process for how students arrive at the product or performance as a result of instruction, rather than focusing solely on the end result. An informance may include explanation or discussion.
