informant

DEFINITIONS OF: informant

Types:: show 7 types...; hide 7 types...; betrayer, blabber, informer, rat, squealer
one who reveals confidential information in return for money; leaker
a surreptitious informant; passive source
an informant who is not assigned to obtain specific intelligence but who routinely passes on whatever information he or she has; whistle blower, whistle-blower, whistleblower
an informant who exposes wrongdoing within an organization in the hope of stopping it; canary, fink, sneak, sneaker, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon
someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police; copper's nark, nark
an informer or spy working for the police; grass, supergrass
a police informer who implicates many people

Types:: attestant, attester
someone who affirms or vouches for the correctness or truth or genuineness of something; deponent, deposer, testifier
a person who testifies or gives a deposition

Type of:: beholder, observer, perceiver, percipient
a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses; speaker, talker, utterer, verbaliser, verbalizer
someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous)

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