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confidential informants

confidential informants is the plural of confidential informant.

Meaning of confidential informant

Noun

confidential informant (plural confidential informants)

  1. Someone who secretly provides information to the police about wrongdoing which they are aware of due to their relationship to the wrongdoer.

Questions about confidential informants

What is confidential informants the plural of?
Confidential informants is the plural of confidential informant.

Words near confidential informants in the dictionary

  1. confident
  2. confidente
  3. confidentes
  4. confidential
  5. confidential informant
  6. confidential informants
  7. confidentialised
  8. confidentialities
  9. confidentiality
  10. confidentially
  11. confidentialness

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