Informer
[ɪn'fɔːmə] or [ɪn'fɔrmɚ]
Definition
(noun.) one who reveals confidential information in return for money.
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Definition
(v.) One who informs, animates, or inspires.
(v.) One who informs, or imparts knowledge or news.
(v.) One who informs a magistrate of violations of law; one who informs against another for violation of some law or penal statute.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Informant.[2]. Accuser, complainant.
Typist: Penelope
Examples
- Mortimer again turned to the informer, to whom he said: 'You have been troubled in your mind a long time, man? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- This Blessington or Sutton, who was the worst of the gang, turned informer. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Not showing himself much impressed by this remarkable confirmation of the informer's evidence, Lightwood inquired what other business they had there? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- You argue like an informer, Socrates. Plato. The Republic.
- 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. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Now, I'm blest if I understand you, Governors Both,' said the informer, in a creeping manner: propitiating both, though only one had spoken. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- And now cheat and play the informer if you can; I ask no quarter at your hands. Plato. The Republic.
- Giving his wine a final chew, and swallowing it, the informer answered in a single word: 'Hages! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- After some consideration, he went into business as an informer, in which calling he realises a genteel subsistence. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Indeed, Thrasymachus, and do I really appear to you to argue like an informer? Plato. The Republic.
- Lightwood also smoked, with his eyes negligently turned on the informer. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- And so they may, answered my informer, if you let the parties choose for themselves: which, indeed, I could not deny. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- With something so suddenly fierce in him that the informer returned submissively; 'Well, well, well, t'other governor, I didn't say it was. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The informer wiped his brow ruefully as he said it, sitting in his boat and always staring disconsolate. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- If a gentleman was the victim of spies, intruders, and informers (but still naming no names), that was his own pleasure. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The first I shall mention, relates to informers. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- But all laws which depend for their enforcement upon informers and fines, become inert from the odiousness of the machinery. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Thenceforward every person's life and fortune depended on the vile breath of informers. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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