[ UK /ɪnfˈɔːmɐ/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈfɔɹmɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. one who reveals confidential information in return for money
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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.
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