informer
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6.0
- noun
- /ɪnˈfɔrmər/
:
informante
- The police relied on an informer to provide details about the criminal organization.
- police informer
- spies and informers
- secret informers
So they all thought I was the police informer from day one you're with me.
- So they all thought I was the police informer from day one you're with me.
- I'll admit all that, but I wasn't the police informer.
- But it's just just the fact that that he wasn't an informer.
- But now he admits when late, Fast forward while he's away, that he was work, that he was a government informer.
- And then as As for the police informer, well, I don't know any information to give them.
- So the reward we believe was paid to her to tell lies for the police and to this police informer for him to tell lies.
- It's not like a lot of times I was informers used to give information about me think giving information to the government.
Examples
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Lieutenant Kendrick told us we had an informer in our group- that Private Santiago had gone outside the chain of command... and reported to the N.I.S. on a member of our platoon.
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The chancellor suspects there might be an informer.
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'Cause we had an informer on the inside helping us.
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We still have to find the informer so we can plan our next move in security.
Fiction book (2001) -
Anyone who believes I'll turn informer for nothing is a fool.
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"Just tell me the names and we're even," the informer said soullessly.
Fiction book (1991) -
Since Corley is a police informer, this is not surprising.
Academic text (1991) -
I was to meet this alleged informer in a lonely rural setting in Cass County.
Fiction book (1992) -
The media coverage convinced many that the informers, not their targets, were the victims of a witch-hunt.
Academic text (1996) -
New laws were introduced that would compensate informers and punish those who withheld information regarding terrorist activities.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
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7.3
A person who betrays a group by telling secret information to outsiders
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5.6
A person who secretly gives information to police, journalists, or researchers
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7.5
A person who secretly tells the police about someone else's bad actions
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5.0
A person who tells authorities or the public about illegal actions at their workplace
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9.2
A person who gives information about others to the police, betraying them
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8.1
A person who tells the police about other people's crimes
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9.9
A person who secretly gives information to the police, often from inside a group
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8.7
A person who secretly tells the police about other people's crimes
Antonyms
How Serious
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6.2
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- Slang
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7.5
- Offensive
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8.1
- Offensive
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6.9
- Offensive
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8.1
- Offensive
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7.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Informer comes from inform, which means 'to give information', plus the ending -er meaning 'a person who does something', so an informer is 'a person who gives information'. That's why today an informer usually means someone who secretly tells the police or an authority about crimes.