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informant

[ in-fawr-muhnt ]

noun

  1. a person who informs inform or gives information; informer.

    Synonyms: , ,

  2. a person who supplies social or cultural data in answer to the questions of an investigator.
  3. Linguistics. a native speaker of a language who supplies utterances and forms for one analyzing or learning the language.


informant

/ ɪ²Ôˈ´Úɔ˳¾É™²Ô³Ù /

noun

  1. a person who gives information about a thing, a subject being studied, etc
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of informant1

1655–65; < Latin ¾±²Ô´ÚÅ°ù³¾²¹²Ô³Ù- (stem of ¾±²Ô´ÚÅ°ù³¾Äå²Ô²õ ) present participle of ¾±²Ô´ÚÅ°ù³¾Äå°ù±ð. See inform 1, -ant
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Department of Justice report criticizes the Orange County Sheriff’s Department and the district attorney’s past use of jail informants.

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County Sheriff Lee Baca, convicted in 2017 of thwarting a federal investigation for his role in keeping an informant out of the reach of his FBI handlers and away from a grand jury.

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He did things that would be illegal today, Clark said, like planting the jailhouse informant who won Graham’s love and helped doom her.

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Adding terrorism designations and pursuing the death penalty while restricting ways for former cartel members to remain in the U.S. also risk making it harder for federal authorities to flip informants, Klapper said.

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That would appear to go some way towards corroborating evidence given at the Lockerbie trial by a CIA informant.

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