Informer meaning

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A person who secretly accuses, or gives evidence against, another, often for a reward.
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A person who tells authorities about improper or illegal activity.
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An informant, especially one who informs against others for compensation.
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One who, privy to the commission of a crime, confidentially communicates with the police or other governmental entity about it.
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One who informs someone else about something.
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One who informs, animates, or inspires.

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Informer Sentence Examples

  • And he gives as a crowning instance that he exposed himself to the hatred of the informer Cyprianus by preventing the punishment of Albinus, a man of consular rank.

  • A like ghostly informer figures in Brittany folklore.

  • To obtain convictions the evidence of an informer was wanted, and the person selected was James Carey, a member of the Dublin Corporation and a chief contriver of the murders.

  • Evidence was given by an informer that, while at Shaftesbury's hiding-place in Wapping, Russell had joined in the proposal to seize the king's guard, a charge indignantly denied by him in his farewell paper, and that he was one of a committee of six appointed to prepare the scheme for an insurrection.

  • In September 1797 the government learnt from the informer MacNally that Lord Edward was among those directing the conspiracy of the United Irishmen, which was now quickly maturing.

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