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informant

in·form·ant [ in fáwrmənt ] (plural in·form·ants)


noun 
Definition:
 
1. somebody who supplies information: somebody who gives information to somebody else

2. informer: somebody who gives confidential or incriminating information to the police about somebody else

3. linguistics cultural anthropology somebody providing language information: somebody who gives a researcher useful cultural or linguistic information

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