Informant
Informant noun - Someone who sees an event and reports what happened.
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Synonyms for Informant
Witness
Witness noun - Someone who sees an event and reports what happened.
Nearby Words: witnessed, witnessing
Both words in one sentence
- The Mentalist: In "Red Sauce", the CBI's murder investigation gets a lot more complicated when the victim, who worked at a local video arcade, turns out to be a mob informant in witness protection.
Source: Witness Protection -
A mob informant for the FBI cops to the murder his identical twin brother (a professor at a university) committed, and even killed a witness who identified the professor.
Source: Series / Law & Order -
The Target of the week, Vinnie, is a mob informant living under witness protection with his family in an idyllic neighborhood.
Source: Video Game / Hitman: Blood Money
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