informer

1. One who informs someone else about something.

2. A person who tells authorities about improper or illegal activity.

   Being an informer often meant living in fear.

   The police relied on an informer to catch the gang.

   Denunziant, Verpfeifer, Ausplauderer

   доно́счикdonósčik, доно́счицаdonósčica, стука́чstukáč

   доно́щикdonóščyk, доно́щицяdonóščycja

3. One who informs, animates, or inspires.

   1729, Alexander Pope, Prologue to Sophonisba (by James Thomson Nature, informer of the poet's art.

   Informant, Hinweisgeber, Tippgeber

   информа́торinformátor, осведоми́тельosvedomítelʹ, осведоми́тельницаosvedomítelʹnica

1. The informer's identity has to remain secret.

   ruЛичность осведомителя должна остаться в тайне.

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2. Tom is an informer.

   deTom ist Informant.

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3. Tom found out that John was a police informer.

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