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What is an informant?

What is an informant? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer.
  2. (linguistics) A native speaker who acts as a linguistic reference for a language being studied. The informant demonstrates native pronunciation, provides grammaticality judgments regarding linguistic well-formedness, and may also explain cultural references and other important contextual information.
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The longer the time elapsed, the less likely that the informant has retained freshness of recollection or can offer new information.
The informant had a plan of double-crossing us from the beginning, and sold us out to some civilian from this area.
A former go-go dancer who now works as his paid informant, she pulls a small Ziploc bag from her purse and slides it across the table.
The informant laughed when he told her, so she guessed it must be someone important.
During police interviews Roberts denied the robbery and claimed that Lane was an informant who was being paid by the police to shop him.
Since 1987 police can get a search warrant on the word of an informant who does not even have to be named.

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