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in·form·er

(ĭn-fôr′mər)

An informant, especially one who informs against others for compensation.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

informer

(ɪnˈfɔːmə)

1. a person who informs against someone, esp a criminal

2. a person who provides information: he was the President's financial informer.

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

in•form•er

(ɪnˈfɔr mər)

n.

1. a person who informs against another, esp. for money or other reward.

2. a person who communicates information or news; informant.

[1500–10]

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Noun

informer - one who reveals confidential information in return for money

betrayer, blabber, squealer, rat

canary, fink, snitch, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon, sneaker, snitcher, sneak - someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police

informant, source - a person who supplies information

copper's nark, nark - an informer or spy working for the police

supergrass, grass - a police informer who implicates many people

informer

noun betrayer, grass (Brit. slang), sneak, squealer (slang), Judas, accuser, stool pigeon, nark (Brit., Austral., & N.Z. slang) two men suspected of being police informers

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

informer

noun

One who gives incriminating information about others:

informant, tattler, tattletale.

Informal: rat, tipster.

Slang: fink, snitch, snitcher, squealer, stoolie, stool pigeon.

Translations

مُخْبِر، مُبْلِغ، واشٍ

-kaudavač

angiver

Ankläger Informant

χαφιές

chivato

indicateur informateur mouchard

feljelentõ

uppljóstrari

informatore delatore

informētājsziņotājs

angiver tyster

udavač

ihbarcımuhbir

告密者

informer

[ɪnˈfɔːməʳ] N → informante mf (pej) → delator(a) m/f, soplón/ona m/f
police informer → informante mf de la policía
to turn informer → convertirse en delator

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

informer

[ɪnˈfɔː^rmə^r] n

(gen) → dénonciateur/trice m/f

(also police informer) → indicateur/trice m/f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

informer

n → Informant(in) m(f), → Denunziant(in) m(f) (pej); police informer → Polizeispitzel m; to turn informer → seine Mittäter verraten

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

informer

[ɪnˈfɔːməʳ] n → informatore/trice
to turn informer (Police) → diventare un informatore/trice

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

inform

(inˈfoːm) verb

1. to tell; to give knowledge to. Please inform me of your intentions in this matter; I was informed that you were absent from the office.

2. (with against or on) to tell facts to eg the police about (a criminal etc). He informed against his fellow thieves.

inˈformant noun

someone who tells or informs. He passed on the news to us, but would not say who his informant had been.

ˌinforˈmation noun

facts told or knowledge gained or given. Can you give me any information about this writer?; the latest information on the progress of the war; He is full of interesting bits of information.

inˈformative (-mətiv) adjective

giving useful information. an informative book.

inˈformer noun

a person who informs against a criminal etc.

ˌinformation ˌsuperˈhighway noun

a fast computer channel through which information, pictures etc are sent from one computer to another.

inforˈmation techˌnology noun

the study and use of electronic systems and computers for storing, analysing and utilizing information.

information does not have a plural: some information ; any information .

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Eugene leaned back in his chair, and smoked with his eyes negligently turned on the informer, and his pen ready to reduce him to more writing.

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Indeed, Thrasymachus, and do I really appear to you to argue like an informer?

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Edward Rose, the interpreter, whose sinister looks we have already mentioned, was denounced by this secret informer as a designing, treacherous scoundrel, who was tampering with the fidelity of certain of the men, and instigating them to a flagrant piece of treason.

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'Would anybody believe,' continued the cab-driver, appealing to the crowd, 'would anybody believe as an informer'ud go about in a man's cab, not only takin' down his number, but ev'ry word he says into the bargain' (a light flashed upon Mr.

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After some consideration, he went into business as an Informer, in which calling he realises a genteel subsistence.

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We rewarded our kind informer for the service he had done us, and lay by till night came to shelter us from our enemies.

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"If poor Miss Emily saw the old lady exhibited in the character of an informer," he thought, "what a blow would be struck at her innocent respect for the memory of her aunt!"

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That, Compeyson stood in mortal fear of him, neither of the two could know much better than I; and that, any such man as that man had been described to be, would hesitate to release himself for good from a dreaded enemy by the safe means of becoming an informer, was scarcely to be imagined.

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Finally, during a quarrel with some woman (to whom he was making up), in which most of the inmates of the house took part apparently, he was openly abused by his chief enemy, an athletic pedlar, for an informer, and for having driven '' our young gentleman to Siberia, the same as you did those young fellows who broke into houses." In consequence of this there was a fight, and Ziemianitch got flung down a flight of stairs.

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He had been accused by an anonymous informer, of having killed a stag in the royal preserves.

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My informer said that they lay now in one of the many buried dungeons of the palace where they had been placed pending a decision as to their fate by the tyrant of the north.

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Screw carries on the profitable trade of informer, in London.

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