American English pronunciation
How to pronounce informant
IPA transcription: [,ɪn'fɔɹmənt]
Pronunciation variants: [,ɪn'fɔɹmənt][,ɪn'fɚmənt]
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Noun
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someone who sees an event and reports what happened
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a person who supplies information
Usage examples
- He had been Whitey's informant.
- He was often described by informants as cold-hearted and narcissistic.
- He gave them another choice: to hand over the informant.
- The Governor's informant had merely misidentified the locally abundant quartzite.
- A lesser clan of the Tribe that are mainly merchants, money lenders and informants.
- She is later revealed to be a secret blackmail informant.
- Searching for the names of officers or informants could compromise those individual's identities.
- My informant was the man himself, sir.