Informant
Informant noun - A person who provides information about another's wrongdoing.
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Synonyms for Informant
Spring and informant are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Spring" instead a noun "Informant".
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In the popular Soviet series Seventeen Moments of Spring, a man is recruited as an informant by Stirlits (Soviet spy in Nazi Germany) and given a suicide pill hidden in a cigarette, an obvious Chekhov's Gun.
Source: Cyanide Pill -
In Clear Skies 2, the team are able to spring an informant from a prison outpost (admittedly, a very backwater one) by posing as guards for a prisoner transfer.
Source: The Guards Must Be Crazy
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Spring and Informant. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/informant/spring
Informant & Spring. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/informant/spring>.
Spring or Informant. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/informant/spring.
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