单词	informer
释义	informerin‧form‧er /ɪnˈfɔːmə $ -ɔːrmər/ noun [countable] Thesaurus THESAURUS► spy someone whose job is to find out secret information about another country: · Stalin controlled a network of spies.· The film is basically a spy story. ► agent/secret agent someone who works for a government or police department in order to get secret information about another country or organization: · a secret agent working for MI5· He is the FBI’s best undercover agent (=one who works secretly and pretends to be someone else). ► double agent someone who finds out an enemy country’s secrets for their own country but who also gives secrets to the enemy: · a former CIA double agent who also worked for the KGB ► mole someone who works for an organization while secretly giving information to its enemies: · A mole in the government was leaking information to the press. ► informer someone who secretly tells the police about criminal activities, especially for money: · Acting on information from an informer, the police raided the house. ► espionage the work that spies do: · He is serving a 20-year prison sentence for espionage. 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 family WORD FAMILYnouninformantinformationinformermisinformationdisinformationadjectiveinformative ≠ uninformativeinformed ≠ uninformedverbinformmisinformadverbinformatively someone who secretly tells the police, the army etc about criminal activities, especially for money SYN  informant
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