Look up: Informant

1. informant
   [n] - a person who supplies information
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2. Informant
   In·form'ant noun [ Latin informans , -antis , present participle of informare . See Inform , transitive verb ] 1. One who, or that which, informs, animates, or vivifies. [ Obsolete] Glanv...
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3. Informant
   • (v. t.) One who offers an accusation; an informer. See Informer. • (v. t.) One who, or that which, informs, animates, or vivifies. • (v. t.) One who imparts information or instruction.
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4. informant
   (from the article `ethnography`) ...that affects their objectivity. In addition to the technique of participant-observation, the contemporary ethnographer usually selects and ...
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5. informant
   
   • a person who supplies information
   • someone who sees an event and reports what happened
   
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6. Informant
   An `informant` is a person who provides privileged information about a person or organization to an agency. The term is usually used within the law enforcement world, where they are officially known as `confidential` or `criminal informants` (`CI`), and can often refer pejoratively to the supply of ...
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7. Informant
   (psychiatry) In psychiatry, an `informant` is someone who can report on a case without causing observer effects. For example, informants may be family members or friends of a psychiatric patient. Informants are particularly important when the patient`s lucidity is questionable; for example, i...
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8. Informant
   (linguistics) An `informant` or `consultant` in linguistics is a native speaker who acts as a linguistic reference for a language being studied. The informant`s role is that of a senior interpreter, who demonstrates native pronunciation, provides grammaticality judgments regarding linguistic ...
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