Usually means: Sources providing information, often covertly.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. informants: Merriam-Webster
  2. informants: Collins English Dictionary
  3. informants: Vocabulary.com
  4. Informants, informant's, informants: Wordnik
  5. informants: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. informants: Wiktionary
  7. informants: Dictionary.com
  8. informants: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Informants: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Informants: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. informants: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Informants: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Informants: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (informant)

noun:  One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer.
noun:  (linguistics) A native speaker who acts as a linguistic reference for a language being studied. The informant demonstrates native pronunciation, provides grammaticality judgments regarding linguistic well-formedness, and may also explain cultural references and other important contextual information.
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