单词	informant
释义	informantin‧for‧mant /ɪnˈfɔːmənt $ -ɔːr-/ ●○○ noun [countable] Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Working as an informant, Johnson provided the FBI with details on the Mafia's criminal activities. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Betty Bell was the chief informant about Harold Shoosmith for she had been engaged for three mornings and three evenings a week. In the interview, it is stressed that the informant should direct the discussion because the ethnographer becomes the learner. It is also noticeable that slightly fewer men than women informants reveal any significant memory. Key informants in universities and government agencies provided assistance in locating and gaining access to the relevant documents. Provenzano is suspected of having informants at senior levels, as well as friends among Sicily's left-wing politicians. The informant showed gun crates marked with the names of Norinco and Poly Technologies to an undercover agent. The establishment of personal relationships was not as crucial during the study of the known sector where informants had been randomly sampled. The schedule for these standard interviews will be piloted by extended semi-structured interviews with shop stewards and key management informants. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorsomeone who gives information to the police► informer/informant someone who is part of or closely connected with a criminal organization but who secretly tells the police about its activities: · An informer had warned police about the bombing.police informer/informant: · The three men were released on condition that they became police informants. ► grass British informal someone who secretly gives the police information about someone who is responsible for a crime, in return for money, when this seems disloyal: · I wouldn't inform on you -- I'm no grass. ► nark especially British, informal /narc especially American, informal someone who is friendly with criminals and who secretly tells the police about their activities, especially activities involving illegal drugs: · I wouldn't trust that new guy - I think he's a narc. ► stool pigeon especially American a criminal who helps the police to trap other criminals by telling the police about a crime that is going to take place: · How could he ever live with himself after being a stool pigeon? ► source someone who gives information to the police, a newspaper etc, especially someone who does not want their name to be known: · It's the first duty of a journalist to protect his or her sources (=not say who they are).· Our source informed us that there was a possibility of another attack the following week, possibly in the central London area. WORD SETS► Police agent, nounbaton, nounbeat, nounbobby, nounbody armour, nounbody search, nounbook, verbchief constable, nounchief inspector, nounchief superintendent, nounCID, the, commander, nouncommissioner, nouncomposite, nounconstable, nounconstabulary, nouncop, nouncopper, nouncop shop, nouncruiser, noundetective, noundragnet, nounFBI, the, flying squad, nounFraud Squad, nounfrisk, verbgendarme, nounguard dog, nounhighway patrol, nounhomicide, nouninformant, nouninspector, nounInterpol, nouninvestigation, nounlaw enforcement agent, nounlawman, nounmanor, nounMetropolitan Police, the, MI5, nounmissing person, nounMountie, nounmugshot, nounnab, verbnail, verbnarc, nounnark, nounnick, verbnightstick, nounofficer, nounoperation, nounpaddy wagon, nounPanda car, nounpatrol, nounpatrol car, nounpatrolman, nounpig, nounplain-clothes, adjectiveplastic bullet, nounpolice constable, nounpolice department, nounpolice dog, nounpolice force, nounpoliceman, nounpolice officer, nounpolice station, nounpolicewoman, nounprecinct, nounquell, verbquestion, verbradar trap, nounraid, nounraid, verbrank, nounrap sheet, nounriot police, nounroadblock, nounScotland Yard, search warrant, nounsheriff, nounshield, nounsnout, nounspecial agent, nounSpecial Branch, nounspecial constable, nounsquad, nounsquad car, nounstate trooper, nounstation house, nounstore detective, nounsupergrass, nounsuperintendent, nountraffic cop, nountrooper, nountruncheon, nounwarrant, nounwater cannon, nounWPC, noun Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► key · The schedule for these standard interviews will be piloted by extended semi-structured interviews with shop stewards and key management informants.· The principal investigators will be responsible for interviewing key informants about the way the system has been modified in recent years.· Here, a combination of key informant and snowball sampling was used.· From a key informant familiar with the dementia sufferer and his or her home circumstances. VERB► use · For these reasons, access to the communities was obtained through suitable intermediaries, who were not used as informants.· Scull is using jailhouse informants to testify that Wooten confessed to them.· In the past the Commission has used informants to good effect.· And they have taken the controversial step of using undercover informants inside the antiabortion movement.· Here, a combination of key informant and snowball sampling was used. Word family WORD FAMILYnouninformantinformationinformermisinformationdisinformationadjectiveinformative ≠ uninformativeinformed ≠ uninformedverbinformmisinformadverbinformatively 1someone who secretly gives the police, the army etc information about someone else SYN  informer:  One of the witnesses was a paid informant for the FBI.2technical someone who gives information about their language, social customs etc to someone who is studying them
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