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Anonymous Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Spy vs informant

What is the difference between 'spy' and 'informant'

  

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Informant: someone who secretly gives information about someone to the police or someone in authority; More generally, someone who give a piece of information to someone. Spy: someone is employed (usually by a government) to find out secret information about a country or an organization

  • Informant: someone who secretly gives information about someone to the police or someone in authority; More generally, someone who give a piece of information to someone.
  • Spy: someone is employed (usually by a government) to find out secret information about a country or an organization
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Informant: someone who secretly gives information about someone to the police or someone in authority;

More generally, someone who give a piece of information to someone.

Spy: someone is employed (usually by a government) to find out secret information about a country or an organization

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"informant" is also used in linguistics to signify a speaker of a language who is helping someone to learn his or her language.

Thus, on this site, those of us who are native speakers who are answering your questions are informants.

CJ

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