Meaning & use
Informant
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A person who provides confidential information to authorities, or who supplies information to a researcher.
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The informant tipped off police about the planned robbery.
Linguists interviewed native-speaker informants to document the dying dialect.
A note on using this word
In law enforcement, "informant" usually carries a slightly negative connotation of betrayal, while in academic fieldwork it's a neutral term for a research participant.
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