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  1. informers

    An informant (also called an informer or, as a slang term, a “snitch”) 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 informants are officially known as confidential human sources (CHS), or criminal informants (CI). It can also refer pejoratively to someone who supplies information without the consent of the involved parties. The term is commonly used in politics, industry, entertainment, and academia.In the United States, a confidential informant or "CI" is "any individual who provides useful and credible information to a law enforcement agency regarding felonious criminal activities and from whom the agency expects or intends to obtain additional useful and credible information regarding such activities in the future".

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. informers

    In the British service, were soldiers who gave information of false musters, or of pay illegally detained; and were, for said services, entitled to their discharge.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of informers in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of informers in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of informers in a Sentence

  1. Nadia Comaneci:

    I was aware of [Olaru's] project and his research on the secret police files and informers, i told him that my whole memory is in the book I wrote, ‘Letters to a Young Gymnast.’ Nothing more to add. Life goes on.

  2. Devin Nunes:

    We're trying to gather all the facts, we've heard from a lot of whistleblowers and other informers.

  3. Peter King:

    You look where the terror is going to come from, and right now, it is going to come from the Muslim community, it's a small percentage, but to me, the only way you find out about it in advance is having sources and informers on the ground, having constant surveillance.

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