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Meaning of informant in English

informant
noun [ C ]
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/ɪnˈfɔː.mənt/ us
/ɪnˈfɔːr.mənt/
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someone who gives information to another person or organization:
a police/secret informant
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informant | American Dictionary

informant
noun [ C ]
us
/ɪnˈfɔr·mənt/
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a person who tells esp. the police or newspaper reporters about something:
He was working as an undercover informant for the police.
(Definition of informant from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

informant | Business English

informant
noun [ C ]
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/ɪnˈfɔːmənt/ us
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a person who answers questions relating to their opinions or feelings about something, so that information can be collected about it:
a survey informant
(Definition of informant from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of informant

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Nonetheless, we believe the informants' expressions provided a valuable and near-comprehensive account of the older male's care-giving experience.
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Among the potential informants identified, priority was given to persons living in the same household.
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If practical support was received, the informant was asked who provided it.
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To protect informants and actors engaged in youth politics, they are not identified unless otherwise agreed.
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Key informants, intentionally or otherwise, had a powerful role in determining who took part, why they took part, and on the dynamics of their involvement.
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Another informant lived with a mentally disabled son with learning difficulties, and had lost a second son as a result of political violence.
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Tokens of each type were counted per informant.
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Money is the informants' only absolution (and this is the measure of their degradation).
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Furthermore, these models were used to systematically test the significance of occasion-, informant-, and trait-specific effects.
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The latent phenotype is related to the report of that informant on his co-twin by the bi (for bias) path.
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Several informants referred with pride to the children they perceived to have been successful.
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Eleven informants missing data on one or several indices of status or integration were set aside.
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Significant differences did not change when rates were considered excluding proband informant data.
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We also interviewed key informants, such as marketplace administrators and tax collectors.
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This study compares patient and informant reports of depressive disorders in a community sample of elderly medical homecare patients.
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in Chinese (Traditional)
告密者，線人，舉報者, 提供消息者…
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告密者，线人，举报者, 提供信息者…
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informante, informador, informadora…
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