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| in·form·ant [ in fáwrmənt ] (plural in·form·ants) |
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1. somebody who supplies information: somebody who gives information to somebody else
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2. informer: somebody who gives confidential or incriminating information to the police about somebody else
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3. linguistics cultural anthropology somebody providing language information: somebody who gives a researcher useful cultural or linguistic information
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