Informer vs. Informant

Informernoun

One who informs someone else about something.

Informernoun

A person who tells authorities about improper or illegal activity.

Informernoun

One who informs, animates, or inspires.

Informernoun

One who informs, animates, or inspires.

Informernoun

One who informs, or imparts knowledge or news.

Informernoun

One who informs a magistrate of violations of law; one who informs against another for violation of some law or penal statute.

Informernoun

one who reveals confidential information in return for money

Informantnoun

One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer.

Informantnoun

(linguistics) A native speaker who acts as a linguistic reference for a language being studied. The informant demonstrates native pronunciation, provides grammaticality judgments regarding linguistic well-formedness, and may also explain cultural references and other important contextual information.

Informantnoun

One who, or that which, informs, animates, or vivifies.

Informantnoun

One who imparts information or instruction.

Informantnoun

One who offers an accusation; an informer. See Informer.

Informantnoun

a person who supplies information

Informantnoun

someone who sees an event and reports what happened

Informantnoun

a person who gives information to another.

Informantnoun

another term for informer

Informantnoun

a person from whom a linguist or anthropologist obtains information about language, dialect, or culture.

Informant

An informant (also called an informer) 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 human source (CHS), or criminal informants (CI).