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informer
/ ɪnˈfɔːmə /
noun
- a person who informs against someone, esp a criminal
- a person who provides information
he was the President's financial informer
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Time limits were placed on investigations, the FBI in Washington had to approve informers, and the attorney general had to approve mail interceptions and “other invasive investigative methods,” Medsger wrote.
The witnesses against him may include Vincente Zambada, brother of the informer-hating Serafin.
Serafin posted numerous identifiable photos of himself on Facebook, as well as pictures of a disemboweled informer.
An inquiry headed by the Police Ombudsman, a sort of referee figure, came down against the informer allegation.
Other rabbis denounced the open condemnation of community pedophiles, labeling Rosenberg an “informer” against the Jewish people.
He started as a KGB informer in the 1930s in London, while working as a London Times correspondent.
Dale, an indefatigable informer, was consumed by vermin, and died a miserable spectacle.
Kurt then suddenly understood that his impudent small sister had probably been the informer and he did not know what to answer.
The informer, blank-faced and stern, noted the crime and informed the police.
One morning the informer was found by the jailer hanging to the bars of his window.
How comes it that he is not produced here to tell your Lordships who was his informer, and what he knows of the transaction?
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