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Topic: POLICE

informant

 noun
     
in‧for‧mant [countable]
1SCP someone who secretly gives the police, the army etc information about someone else [= informer]:
One of the witnesses was a paid informant for the FBI.
2 technical someone who gives information about their language, social customs etc to someone who is studying them
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