Respondent vs. Informant

Respondentnoun

(legal) The person who answers for the defendant in a case before a court. In some legal systems, when one appeals a criminal case, one names the original court as defendant, but the state is the respondent.

Respondentnoun

One who responds.

Respondentnoun

The person replying to a questionnaire.

Respondentadjective

Disposed or expected to respond; answering; according; corresponding.

Respondentadjective

Disposed or expected to respond; answering; according; corresponding.

Respondentnoun

One who responds. It corresponds in general to defendant.

Respondentnoun

the codefendant (especially in a divorce proceeding) who is accused of adultery with the corespondent

Respondentnoun

someone who responds

Respondentadjective

replying;

Respondentnoun

a party against whom a petition is filed, especially one in an appeal or a divorce case.

Respondentnoun

a person who replies to something, especially one supplying information for a questionnaire or responding to an advertisement

Respondentadjective

in the position of a party defending against a petition

Respondentadjective

replying to something

Respondentadjective

involving or denoting a response, especially a conditioned reflex, to a specific stimulus.

Respondent

A respondent is a person who is called upon to issue a response to a communication made by another. The term is used in legal contexts, in survey methodology, and in psychological conditioning.

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).