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informant

/in-fawr-muhnt/US // ɪnˈfɔr mənt //UK // (ɪnˈfɔːmənt) //

检举人,举报人,举报者,线人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who informs or gives information; informer.
    • : a person who supplies social or cultural data in answer to the questions of an investigator.
    • : Linguistics. a native speaker of a language who supplies utterances and forms for one analyzing or learning the language.

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Examples

  • In 40 pages of FBI reports on Lewis and more than 900 pages on Patrick that I obtained through open records requests, nothing suggests Lewis was an informant.

  • The FBI deployed an undercover informant who posed as a member of Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group, and offered to help the suspects obtain explosives and training.

  • They threatened to arrest him if he didn’t agree to become an informant.

  • Those authorities ultimately used an informant to weed out their resistance efforts.

  • The FBI said it became aware of the activity through social media and also relied on an informant to collect information from within the group.

  • She needs to make sure the informant is alive, but he needs him dead.

  • In April of this year, the FBI tried to recruit a member of the Guantanamo defense team as an informant.

  • Agents contrived for one paid federal informant and then another to introduce themselves into his life.

  • Instead, he was offered a deal: permission to stay, if he became an informant.

  • They want the benefits of being an informant and the income from doing something illegal.

  • When Aunt Ri heard that Farrar had fled the country, she pushed up her spectacles and looked reflectively at her informant.

  • He denied it at once, wanted to know the name of her informant, and finally laughed the whole matter out of her mind.

  • To himself, he could give no reason for establishing the identity of the smoking-compartment informant.

  • From any other informant I would not have accepted this statement as probable, still less as true.

  • So far as I could learn from my informant, the case was one of flagrant persecution, with no culpable occasion behind it.