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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 informant laughed when he told her, so she guessed it must be someone important.
I came to know who the informant was because of a leak in the Crown attorney's office.
During police interviews Roberts denied the robbery and claimed that Lane was an informant who was being paid by the police to shop him.
I have also twice had the experience of suddenly recognizing the description of another anthropologist's informant as a mutual friend.
The longer the time elapsed, the less likely that the informant has retained freshness of recollection or can offer new information.
He made a counter-accusation against the informant for betraying military information.

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