| 单词 | informant |
| 释义 | informant (once / 2100 pages) n WORD FAMILY informant: informants+/inform: informant, information, informative, informatory, informed, informer, informing, informs, misinform/information: disinformation, informational, informations/informative: informatively, uninformative/informed: informedly, uninformed/informer: informers/misinform: misinformation, misinformed, misinforming, misinforms/misinformation: misinformations/uninformative: uninformatively USAGE EXAMPLESProsecutors say the conspiracy included the fatal shootings of two government informants and seven other people. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) In one case, the information was used to arrange the attempted murder of an informant. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) Federal court records show that Francis methodically cultivated a network of paid Navy informants over many years and planted them throughout the bureaucracy. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) 1n a person who supplies information Syn|Hypo|Hyper source betrayer, blabber, informer, rat, squealer one who reveals confidential information in return for money leakera surreptitious informant passive sourcean informant who is not assigned to obtain specific intelligence but who routinely passes on whatever information he or she has whistle blower, whistle-blower, whistlebloweran informant who exposes wrongdoing within an organization in the hope of stopping it canary, fink, sneak, sneaker, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeonsomeone acting as an informer or decoy for the police copper's nark, narkan informer or spy working for the police grass, supergrassa police informer who implicates many people communicator a person who communicates with others 2n someone who sees an event and reports what happened Syn|Hypo|Hyper witness, witnesser attestant, attester someone who affirms or vouches for the correctness or truth or genuineness of something deponent, deposer, testifiera person who testifies or gives a deposition beholder, observer, perceiver, percipient a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses speaker, talker, utterer, verbaliser, verbalizersomeone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous) |
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