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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
informed
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an educated/informed guess (=a guess based on things that you know are correct)
▪ Stockbrokers try to make educated guesses as to which stocks will do well.
an informed choice (=a choice based on knowledge of the facts about something)
▪ The patient should have enough information to make an informed choice.
informed consent (=based on full information about what will happen)
▪ The men took part in this study after giving informed consent.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
fully
▪ Ensuring that patients participating in drug trials give fully informed consent will need careful handling.
▪ After fully informed consent was obtained eligible patients were registered by phone at the central statistical office at the University of Vienna.
▪ In almost all cases testing may only be done with the fully informed consent of the person being tested.
▪ Local ethical committee approval was obtained, and all patients had given fully informed consent to the procedures.
more
▪ With growing success has also come a more informed understanding of the quality of life.
▪ As more and more concerned organisations make their voice heard, the greater is our chance for a more informed society.
■ NOUN
choice
▪ The view is that a consent is not valid unless the patient has enough information to make an informed choice.
▪ Information is vital Good information is essential if people are to make informed choices about services.
▪ Vocational Studies allow students to make an informed choice of career options.
▪ And now supermarkets throughout the country are helping the shopper to make more informed choices.
▪ The exam league table is supposed to help parents make well informed choices for their children.
▪ Whatever choices are offered to voters and however they are assessed they must be informed choices.
▪ Democracy ought to entail the free exercise of informed choice.
▪ A full examination of the application will lead to an informed choice, and optimum performance.
consent
▪ Written informed consent was obtained from each patient before the study.
▪ All subjects gave informed consent for the study, which was approved by the local ethical committee.
▪ Who's afraid of informed consent?
▪ The study was approved by the ethics committee of our university and informed consent was obtained from all patients and healthy volunteers.
▪ After fully informed consent was obtained eligible patients were registered by phone at the central statistical office at the University of Vienna.
▪ The studies were approved by the ethics committee, and all volunteers gave written informed consent.
▪ Under the relevant sections it states that the patient's informed consent is required before certain designated treatments can be carried out.
▪ This study received approval from our local Ethical Committee and all patients provided written, informed consent.
decision
▪ This will help them to make better informed decisions on behalf of the company, its shareholders and employees worldwide.
▪ The answers should enable purchasers of health care to make an informed decision on the subject.
▪ The psychological advantages or disadvantages on woman and fetus must be addressed and researched so that informed decisions can still be made.
▪ It is designed to help each applicant to make an informed decision before applying for a particular programme of study.
▪ However, the constable's decision, in my judgment, must be an informed decision.
▪ It helps you to make informed decisions about your career choice.
▪ We do so to make available to ordinary people this crucial information so that they can make informed decisions about their health care.
▪ Commercial intelligence is essential for informed decision making.
opinion
▪ Everything I've said here is merely my informed opinion based on my own experience against a limited selection of foes.
▪ I can offer an objective view, an informed opinion.
▪ The Reports were published amidst a general expectation among informed opinion that the Poor Law would indeed be reformed or abolished.
▪ The 1914-18 War radicalized informed opinion on educational matters.
▪ More usually the Committee is synthesizing informed opinion on a particular proposal.
▪ In Britain, most people with an informed opinion would assent to it enthusiastically.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an informed public
▪ The report was confirmed by informed sources within the government.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Informed

Informed \In*formed"\ (?n-f?rmd"), a. Unformed or ill-formed; deformed; shapeless. [Obs.]
--Spenser.

Informed stars. See under Unformed.

Informed

Inform \In*form"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Informed; p. pr. & vb. n. Informing.] [OE. enformen, OF. enformer, F. informer. L. informare; pref. in- in + formare to form, share, fr. forma form. See Form.]

  1. To give form or share to; to give vital or organizing power to; to give life to; to imbue and actuate with vitality; to animate; to mold; to figure; to fashion. ``The informing Word.''
    --Coleridge.

    Let others better mold the running mass Of metals, and inform the breathing brass.
    --Dryden.

    Breath informs this fleeting frame.
    --Prior.

    Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part.
    --Pope.

  2. To communicate knowledge to; to make known to; to acquaint; to advise; to instruct; to tell; to notify; to enlighten; -- usually followed by of.

    For he would learn their business secretly, And then inform his master hastily.
    --Spenser.

    I am informed thoroughly of the cause.
    --Shak.

  3. To communicate a knowledge of facts to, by way of accusation; to warn against anybody.

    Tertullus . . . informed the governor against Paul.
    --Acts xxiv. 1.

    Syn: To acquaint; apprise; tell; teach; instruct; enlighten; animate; fashion.

Wiktionary
informed

Etymology 1

  1. 1 instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education. 2 Based on knowledge; founded on due understanding of a situation. 3 (context obsolete English) created, given form. v

  2. (en-past of: inform) Etymology 2

    a. (context obsolete English) unformed or ill-formed; deformed; shapeless

WordNet
informed

adj. having much knowledge or education; "an informed public"; "informed opinion"; "the informed customer" [ant: uninformed]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "informed".

The household was abustle, and Matt had informed her that she had somewhere in the neighborhood of half an hour to get breakfast prepared and the boys off to school.

And inasmuch as we are informed that that is inconvenient, we order that the ships be prepared with all that is necessary by December, so that at the end of that month, they may leave the said port of Acapulco, so that they may be able to arrive at the said islands, at the latest, some time in March.

Christ, which body, although not informed by those accidents, is yet contained under them.

When Franklin informed him that the Comte de Chaumont was charging nothing, that they were living there at no cost, Adams worried that that, too, was inappropriate, since, as everyone knew, Chaumont was one of the largest contractors furnishing supplies for the American army.

In an official letter of June 21, Vergennes informed Adams that France opposed any revaluation of the American currency unless an exception were made for French merchants.

That spring Adams was informed that already the French had taken more than 300 trading vessels.

Public opinion--in spite of, or on account of, a crowd of witnesses--was ill informed upon the exact bearings of the question, and it was obvious that as Dutch sentiment at the Cape appeared already to be thoroughly hostile to us, it would be dangerous to alienate the British Africanders also by making a martyr of their favourite leader.

As we rounded the shoulder of the summit, Kathleen informed me that she had to go to the bathroom, and I was suddenly faced with the reality of Alaskan motherhood.

They had just arrived, the messenger informed us, on a visit to the Prior of Malvern, and came from Worcester in great privacy, attended only by Bishop Alcock, the tutor of the young princes.

Miss Velis here just informed me that she is planning to move to Algeria, to live among the Arabs?

I informed Lieutenant Alima that a freighter owned by Han Solo would be blasting out of here with two droids as its primary cargo.

Sir Alured in his letter expressed a hope that Everett might be informed instantly.

So television viewers across the land, who for the last year had not been able to settle into their recliners without being exposed to a scene of red-white-and-blue balloons and flawlessly coiffed candidates standing in front of blue curtains in hotel ballrooms, were generally befuddled when they checked the evening news on Labor Day and were informed, by solemn anchorpersons, that Tip McLane, the President, and William A.

Labor Day and were informed, by solemn anchorpersons, that Tip McLane, the President, and William A.

Bragadin informed me that he had sent his letter to the father, who had answered that he would call himself on the following day to ascertain M.