Meaning & use
Informing
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Giving someone facts or information, or shaping and influencing something.
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She was informing the committee about the latest budget figures.
Personal experience was informing his approach to teaching.
A note on using this word
Can also carry a negative sense meaning to report someone to authorities, as in 'informing on a friend'.
Words with a similar meaning
notifyingadvising
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Another way to use it
2. verb
Reporting someone's wrongdoing to the authorities, often secretly.
He was accused of informing on his fellow workers to the management.
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