Crossword clues for informer
informer
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Informer \In*form"er\, n. [From Inform, v.]
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One who informs, animates, or inspires. [Obs.]
--Thomson.Nature, informer of the poet's art.
--Pope. One who informs, or imparts knowledge or news.
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(Law) One who informs a magistrate of violations of law; one who informs against another for violation of some law or penal statute.
Common informer (Law), one who habitually gives information of the violation of penal statutes, with a view to a prosecution therefor.
--Bouvier.
--Wharton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., enfourmer "instructor, teacher," native agent noun from inform and also from Old French enformeor. Meaning "one who gives information against another" (especially in reference to law-breaking) is c.1500.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 One who informs someone else about something. 2 A person who tells authorities about improper or illegal activity. 3 One who informs, animates, or inspires. n. 1 One who informs someone else about something. 2 A person who tells authorities about improper or illegal activity. 3 One who informs, animates, or inspires.
WordNet
Wikipedia
An informer, or informant, is a person who provides privileged information to an agency.
Informer may also refer to:
- Sub-Saharan Informer (newspaper), a Pan-African weekly
- Informer (newspaper), a Serbian daily
- "Informer" (song), a 1992 song by Snow from 12 Inches of Snow
- Common informer, a historical concept in English law abolished in 1951
- The Informer (novel), a 1925 novel by Liam O'Flaherty
- The Informers, a 1994 short story anthology
- The Washington Informer, an African-American weekly newspaper in Washington, D.C.
"Informer" is a 1993 song by Canadian reggae musician Snow from his debut album 12 Inches of Snow. Produced by MC Shan, who also contributed a verse, the single was a chart-topping hit, spending seven consecutive weeks at number-one on the Billboard Hot 100. It was his biggest hit in the United Kingdom, where it reached Number 2, behind two different number one singles. In 2007, the song was ranked No. 84 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s. Conversely, the song was included in Pitchfork Media's 2010 list of "the seven worst U.S. No. 1 singles of the 90s".
Informer is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Belgrade, Serbia. According to the Svet media research, Informer recorded one of the highest jumps in the number of sold copies with 26,530 in May, to 63,934 in December 2012.
The newspaper deals with various topics including politics, regional and world news, popular culture, health, and sports. It has been accused of political bias in favor of the Serbian Progressive Party.
Usage examples of "informer".
But the informers were ubiquitous and unknown, which was another reason why the Romans and Antiochenes refrained from mixing socially more than could be helped.
Some Italian fascists became collabo rators and informers, and some men and women became partisans.
Honorius seems to check the malicious industry of informers, a subsequent edict, at the distance of ten years, continues and renews the prosecution of the crimes which had been committed in the time of the general rebellion.
Sosia Camillina, daughter of P Camillus Meto, to M Didius Falco, private informer.
But he soon surrounded himself with spies and informers, and put to death the noblest men of his time.
The First commanded the finest network of spies and informers on or around Otaria, bar none.
You have a defensive team around our informer and his family, and your advanced team is in Phnom Penh and are already feeding back information.
There was not much risk of informers in the Thermae, but a man never knew who his enemies were.
We devoted ourselves to tracking down spies and informers in Tipperary and giving them what they deserved.
Only criminals or informers came and waited here, or influential people vainly trying to get out of a dangerous driving charge or desperately hoping to persuade Vallance that their sons were not really homosexuals.
A secretary of an embassy, whom I knew some years after, told me that a paid informer, with two other witnesses, also, doubtless, in the pay of this grand tribunal, had declared that I was guilty of only believing in the devil, as if this absurd belief, if it were possible, did not necessarily connote a belief in God!
Nowadays its hundred or so blocks were the bright and lively haunt of alcoholics, agnostics, artists, atheists, beggars, cutthroats, deserters, drug dealers, evangelists, footpads, gentry, heathens, informers, jays, knife grinders, lesbians, libertines, mollyboys, musicians, navvies, ostlers, physicians, queers, recruiters, reformers, sailors, socialists, trulls, users, vagabonds, watchmakers, xenophiles, and yuppies.
After a trial full of lurid accusations by informers, and forced confessions, two white men and two white women were executed, eighteen slaves were hanged, and thirteen slaves were burned alive.
After begging pardon for having intruded upon your family at these hours, I must now tell you that my cousin, Count Melvil, was some time ago so much misrepresented to his mother by certain malicious informers, who delight in sowing discord in private families, that she actually believed her son an extravagant spendthrift, who had not only consumed his remittances in the most riotous scenes of disorder, but also indulged a pernicious appetite for gaming, to such a degree, that he had lost all his clothes and jewels at play.
The offer of that reward would have made us tremble if our leader, precisely the one who alone had no interest in turning informer, had not been a patrician.