[
UK
/ɪnfˈɔːmɐ/
]
[ US /ˌɪnˈfɔɹmɝ/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈfɔɹmɝ/ ]
NOUN
- one who reveals confidential information in return for money
How To Use informer In A Sentence
- During the 1976-83 period, operations included the assassination of police informers and perceived quislings, bank robberies and attacks on the security forces and police stations.
- They have been provided with the type of new identities and false life histories normally reserved for spies and gangland informers.
- So it was that Giusy became the Cosa Nostra's first female boss pentito -- or informer. TALES OF A 'MAFIA MAMMA'
- Whether that excludes what used to be called common informers I am not sure.
- The betrayal of outlaws by informers was a common historical fact.
- The teachers were viewed as informers, or at best cowards and hypocrites.
- An informer who denounces someone to the government to be killed, imprisoned, or even fined is likened to an assailant, since being arrested can be a dangerous and traumatic experience.
- Some of the papers contained highly sensitive details of informers and information supplied to Special Branch.
- He could call in at the Informer office in Chancery Lane and use the telephone to arrange a suitably stimulating lunch.
- Agents countered all such efforts aggressively, hiking through the jungles in search of smuggling trails and cultivating local residents as informers.