Crossword clues for informant
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Informant \In*form"ant\, n. [L. informans, -antis, p. pr. of informare. See Inform, v. t.]
One who, or that which, informs, animates, or vivifies. [Obs.]
--Glanvill.One who imparts information or instruction.
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One who offers an accusation; an informer. See Informer.
It was the last evidence of the kind; the informant was hanged.
--Burke.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer. 2 (context linguistics English) A native speaker who acts as a linguistic reference for a language being studied. The informant demonstrates native pronunciation, provides grammaticality judgments regarding linguistic well-formedness, and may also explain cultural references and other important contextual information.
WordNet
Wikipedia
An informant (also called an informer) is a person who provides privileged information about a person or organization to an agency. The term is usually used within the law enforcement world, where they are officially known as confidential or criminal informants (CI), and can often refer pejoratively to the supply of information without the consent of the other parties with the intent of malicious, personal or financial gain. However, the term is used in politics, industry and academia.
An informant or consultant in linguistics is a native speaker who acts as a linguistic reference for a language being studied. The informant's role is that of a senior interpreter, who demonstrates native pronunciation, provides grammaticality judgments regarding linguistic well-formedness, and may also explain cultural references and other important contextual information to researchers from other cultures studying the language.
An informant is a person provides privileged information to an agency.
Informant may also refer to:
- Informant (linguistics), a native speaker who provides information about their language for linguistics study
- Informant (psychiatry), a third party who can report on a psychiatric case for a doctor
In psychiatry, an informant is someone who can report on a case without causing observer effects. For example, informants may be family members or friends of a psychiatric patient. Informants are particularly important when the patient's lucidity is questionable; for example, in cases of dementia, or when the patient is a child.
Data collected from informants must be used with caution, because informants are rarely in a position to provide completely accurate information. In such cases, it is necessary to interview multiple informants and combine the data. Further compounding the difficulty, informants may also suffer from conditions themselves, which makes them more likely to describe others as having the informant's condition. It is not clear whether this makes them more or less objective than healthy informants.
Usage examples of "informant".
But for a rival house to know that Mara had chosen to go personally to the slave market bespoke the presence of an informant very highly placed in Acoma ranks.
From just before the start of the Bojinka trial until March 1997, Bureau agents used Gregory Scarpa as an undercover informant.
In the arrogance of the months following the Six Day War, a plan was proposed in Tel Aviv to tap into the main channels of US intelligence by placing moles and paid informants in key positions.
According to an FBI informant, a wealthy Barnett supporter in Mississippi had arranged for four P-51 Mustang Canadian surplus fighter planes to be flown from Wisconsin to an abandoned World War II B-17 airstrip in western Tennessee, then flown to Mississippi and placed at the disposal of Governor Barnett.
Altogether, my informant speaks of the Dayaks in exactly the same sympathetic terms as Ida Pfeiffer.
He is one of my informants, a dead, a man who has rejected the authority of the Guidefathers, a person who is of the deads but not with them.
Dumont went down to Dogtown with you and Cyd to meet a werewolf informant, and she panicked?
The FBI was picking up alarming intelligence reports from informants that the Ku Klux Klan was not accepting defeat at the Battle of Oxford.
That same night, at a cafe in Columbus, Georgia, an FBI informant overheard a man identifying himself as a Ku Klux Klansman say that the Klan planned to drop explosives on federal troops in Oxford from small rental airplanes.
And according to my invaluable informant Antipater, ten thousand more who survived the first fight further down the Bilechas were rounded up by the Pahlavi Surenas and sent to the frontier of Bactria beyond the Caspian Sea, where they are to be used to keep the Massagetae from raiding.
The Mideastern community was pretty closed, but there were informants, not to mention loyal Americans amongst them.
Spies and informants at every level of government in Arschland were essential to a man like Multan, who depended on intelligence of all sorts to carry out his vast criminal enterprises.
They have also interviewed nonscientist informants and investigated the vast amount of wildman lore contained in ancient literatures and traditions.
The local police said one of their informants told them Marco De Salmo is in town.
Bougainville himself had just come through the Tuamotu Group stretching over a distance of more than 700 miles, and had heard from his informant of the western sector of the Tahitian islands.