informers in English

noun

1

a person who informs on another person to the police or other authority.

The prosecutors knew the case details as provided by the undercover police officers, the informers and the supervisors.

synonyms: informant, betrayer, traitor, Judas, double-crosser, collaborator, spy, double agent, fifth columnist, infiltrator, plant, tattletale, rat, squealer, whistle-blower, snake in the grass, snitch, fink, stool pigeon, stoolie, canary

noun

• informant, betrayer, traitor, Judas, double-crosser, collaborator, spy, double agent, fifth columnist, infiltrator, plant, tattletale, rat, squealer, whistle-blower, snake in the grass, snitch, fink, stool pigeon, stoolie, canary
• betrayer, rat, blabber, squealer

Use "informers" in a sentence

1. You have informers doing the canvass?

2. Not only in my case, informers were very close.

3. Perhaps they do not want to be viewed as informers.

4. There are thousands of informers proclaiming a new devotion to Vaclev Havel.

5. My informers say the critical moment is when the procession passes the square.

6. Three alleged police informers were murdered in the course of the demonstrations.

7. “Churchmen, including high officials of both Protestant and Catholic denominations, were recruited en masse as secret informers.

8. Their fiery speeches, their ' secret ' gatherings so easily penetrated by informers, their Brandishing …

9. Informers were promised a fourth of his goods if he could be convicted of heresy.

10. In many villages, Khmer Rouge informers warn them if government troops are in the area.

11. 15 The service had planted its agents and informers in some key positions in industry.

12. The Duke did all he could to track down the miscreants, using his great wealth to bribe informers.

13. The bishops hired spies and informers to track down dissenting preachers and bring them to trial.

14. Civil-rights activists were appalled by the new brutality of the police, but it gave courage to ordinary people to become informers.

15. The Duke did all he could to track down the miscreants[Sentence dictionary], using his great wealth to bribe informers.

16. It is not surprising, therefore, that unofficial informers reported instances of 'social misconduct' among those practicing a foreign cult (such as the Egyptian Isis worship and eastern Bacchanalism), which would then be banned

17. 1 ‘the organization relied Additionally on a vast network of informers’ SYNONYMS also , in addition, as well, too, besides, on top, on top of that, moreover, further, furthermore, what's more, over and above that, into the bargain, to boot

18. The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union where the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair.

19. I told him, "that in the kingdom of Tribnia, (3) by the natives called Langdon, (4) where I had sojourned some time in my travels, the bulk of the people consist in a manner wholly of discoverers, witnesses, informers, Accusers, prosecutors, evidences, swearers, together with their several subservient and subaltern instruments, all under the