informer

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

a criminal who gives information to the police about other criminals: The bomber turned (= became) police informer to escape prison.

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

informerEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus informerEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

Nearby in the dictionary

influenza influx info infomercial inform informal informant information information superhighway information technology informative

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Is informer a noun, verb, or something else?

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