INFORMANT


Meaning of INFORMANT in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

key

The schedule for these standard interviews will be piloted by extended semi-structured interviews with shop stewards and key management informants .

The principal investigators will be responsible for interviewing key informants about the way the system has been modified in recent years.

Here, a combination of key informant and snowball sampling was used.

From a key informant familiar with the dementia sufferer and his or her home circumstances.

■ VERB

use

For these reasons, access to the communities was obtained through suitable intermediaries, who were not used as informants .

Scull is using jailhouse informants to testify that Wooten confessed to them.

In the past the Commission has used informants to good effect.

And they have taken the controversial step of using undercover informants inside the antiabortion movement.

Here, a combination of key informant and snowball sampling was used .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Working as an informant , Johnson provided the FBI with details on the Mafia's criminal activities.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Betty Bell was the chief informant about Harold Shoosmith for she had been engaged for three mornings and three evenings a week.

In the interview, it is stressed that the informant should direct the discussion because the ethnographer becomes the learner.

It is also noticeable that slightly fewer men than women informants reveal any significant memory.

Key informants in universities and government agencies provided assistance in locating and gaining access to the relevant documents.

Provenzano is suspected of having informants at senior levels, as well as friends among Sicily's left-wing politicians.

The informant showed gun crates marked with the names of Norinco and Poly Technologies to an undercover agent.

The establishment of personal relationships was not as crucial during the study of the known sector where informants had been randomly sampled.

The schedule for these standard interviews will be piloted by extended semi-structured interviews with shop stewards and key management informants.

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