informant
informant
Definition
in·form·ant (in fôr′mənt)
noun
a person who gives, or serves as a source of, information; specif.,
- a native speaker of a language whose pronunciations, usages, etc. are studied and recorded by linguists
- informer
Etymology: < L informans, prp. of informare, to inform
informant
Synonyms
informant
n.
informant
Usage Examples
Converse of subject
- give: The distribution of number of choices given by the informants is shown in the table below.
Converse of object
- participate: Such individuals are sometimes called ' participating informants ' by law enforcement agencies.
- ask: Ask informants to say which words they still use in everyday speech.
- age: Second, the sample design was modified to increase the number of informants aged under 25.
- interview: How did he use the standard methods of PO and interviewing informants?
- pay: There are people in our community who are paid informants.
- identify: Neither will any attempt be made to identify informants collecting rewards at banks, using CCTV systems.
Adjective modifier
- qualified: However, if there are no relatives available there is a list of other qualified informants for the registration.
- anonymous: My anonymous informant brings a welcome report on Abbey Coaches.
- confidential: In January 1994 Haase and Bennett were registered as confidential informants by Customs and Excise.
- key: Each county to key informants reported the matter next.
- Key: Key informants are local people who have a good knowledge of the local area.
- native: Students are required to find out about a language of their choice from a native speaker informant.
Modifies a noun
- interview: The research methods were desk research, focus groups and key informant interviews.
- agent: The sentences in this theory will be submitted to the informant agents in order to check whether they accept the sentences or not.
- design: The object of informant design is to discover something not previously known, rather than confirming what the design team thought it knew already.
Noun used with modifier
- police: Later he was framed for murder on the evidence of a police informant.
- adult: In 1996, 1,768 adult informants with three valid blood pressure readings were taking one or more of these medications.
- case: Difficulties with staffing were highlighted by some case study informants.
- study: Difficulties with staffing were highlighted by some case study informants.
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