English Dictionary

informant

IPA（発音記号）

/ɪnˈfɔːmənt/

名詞

One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer.

日本語の意味

機密情報を誰か（特に警察）に伝える者、情報提供者

The detective relied on the informant's tip to locate the stolen goods.

刑事はその情報提供者の通報を頼りに、盗まれた品を見つけ出した。

意味（1）

One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer.

One of her chief informants is Alicent’s handmaiden Talya (Alexis Rabin), whose inside info runs so deep that she’s the first to catch wind of Viserys’ death.

意味（2）

(linguistics) A native speaker who acts as a linguistic reference for a language being studied. The informant demonstrates native pronunciation, provides grammaticality judgments regarding linguistic well-formedness, and may also explain cultural references and other important contextual information.

The only material the linguist has to begin with are the informant's grammatical utterances in the target language pronounced arbitrarily in a natural or assigned communicative situation or stimulated artificially by the investigator.

informants （ plural ）