Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An informant, especially one who informs against others, often for compensation.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who informs or animates.
- n. One who imparts intelligence or gives information; an informant.
- n. In law, one who communicates to a magistrate a knowledge of a violation of law; a person who lays an information against or prosecutes in the courts one who offends against the law or any penal statute. Such a person is generally called a common informer, if he makes it his business to lay informations for the purpose of obtaining a reward.
- n. Hence One who makes a business of informing against others; a mischief-maker.
- n. Synonyms Informant, Informer. See informant.
Wiktionary
- n. One who informs someone else about something.
- n. A person who tells authorities about improper or illegal activity.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete One who informs, animates, or inspires.
- n. One who informs, or imparts knowledge or news.
- n. (Law) One who informs a magistrate of violations of law; one who informs against another for violation of some law or penal statute.
WordNet 3.0
- n. one who reveals confidential information in return for money
Examples
“To turn these facts into "Socialist icon who became an informer" is itself (sorry, but it's irresistible)”
“He, however, declined the risk, declaring it was impossible to capture the schooner with boats, and as she was a remarkably fast sailer, she was sure to escape; should the enterprise not succeed, he would become known as the informer, and be no longer able to act as pilot in the Bahama Channel.”
“Maj Klopper was shown a document in which one of the informers accidentally signed under his real name, which Col de Kock had deleted and put in a note saying that the informer was a covert agent.”
“If Mr. Harcourt has been told by any one that the Lagden Commission recommended any of these pitiless iniquities, then we are afraid that his informer is a romancer of the superlative degree.”
“The informer was a trifle disconcerted, but he soon recovered himself, and proceeded in a declamatory manner:”
“But he thought it better to avoid mentioning that the informer was his own son Johnnie.”
“The Guardian newspaper published an interview Wednesday with Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, who has been identified as the informer called "Curveball," whose claims about weapon labs formed part of then-U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell's speech to the U.N. Security Council in 2003, shortly before the war began.”
“The Guardian newspaper published an interview Wednesday with Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, who has been identified as the informer called "Curveball," whose claims about weapon labs formed part of then-U.S. secretary of state Colin Powell's speech to the United Nations Security Council in 2003, shortly before the war began.”
“His wife, Carrie Twomey, told the newspaper she lived in constant fear of reprisals for her husband being labelled an informer.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“They did not investigate the character of the informers, but in their suspicious mood listened to all manner of statements, and seized and imprisoned some of the most respectable citizens on the evidence of wretches; they thought it better to sift the matter and discover the truth; and they would not allow even a man of good character, against whom an accusation was brought, to escape without a thorough investigation, merely because the informer was a rogue.”
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