American English pronunciation

How to pronounce informant

IPA transcription: [,ɪn'fɔɹmənt]

Pronunciation variants: [,ɪn'fɔɹmənt][,ɪn'fɚmənt]

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Noun

  • someone who sees an event and reports what happened

  • 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.