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Noun: informant  in'for-munt
  1. A person who supplies information
    - source
  2. Someone who sees an event and reports what happened
    - witness, witnesser

Derived forms: informants

Type of: beholder, communicator, observer, perceiver, percipient, speaker, talker, utterer, verbaliser [Brit], verbalizer

Encyclopedia: Informant