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informant

/ɪnˈfɔɹmənt/noun3 syllables

Informant means: someone who sees an event and reports what happened.

Synonyms for informant18

noun, as in someone who sees an event and reports what happened

witness, witnesser

noun, as in a person who supplies information

source

also used for informant

consultant, abaddon, accuser, beefer, bewrayer, bigmouth, blabber, blabtale, blabtongue, canary, CI, finger, fink, fizgig, gossip

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What does informant mean?2

noun

1

someone who sees an event and reports what happened

2

a person who supplies information

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with informant?1

two syllables

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Informant in a sentence

  • I cannot disclose any information about the informant.darinmex
  • The police got a tip from an informant.OsoHombre
  • I can't disclose any information about the informant.CK
  • The death of this informant could compromise the success of this operation.Miktsoanit
  • The informants we used consisted of twenty Americans and twenty-one British.unknown
  • The NSA and the CIA use a global network of spies and informants.Amastan
  • Sami thought Layla was a police informant.OsoHombre
  • Ziri is one of Walid's informants.Amastan

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Forms of informant

as a noun

plural
informants