informer
Example Sentences
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It was, Mr. Corera writes, a “dead-end job,” but it offered access to documents that revealed the organization’s dark secrets, such as its labyrinth of informers.
The dreaded Stasi, the German secret police, had agents and informers everywhere.
From Literature
There is something about a healthy personality that feels repelled by a snoop, a snitch, a stool pigeon, an informer.
From Salon
"I think that's probably the only way it's going to be solved - someone on the inside becomes an informer."
From BBC
It will also introduce extra powers for investigators, and a special protected status for informers.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
