(law) A statement of criminal activity brought before a judge or magistrate; in the UK, used to inform a magistrate of an offence and request a warrant; in the US, an accusation brought before a judge without a grand jury indictment. [from 15th c.]
(obsolete) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation. [14th-17th c.]
(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.
“Ontario, Newfoundland, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan require more time and funding to complete implementation of the infostructure.”
“In all cases, analysis of the infostructure elements and impacts must be part of a comprehensive health technology policy analysis.”
“Addresses the building of the infostructure components to support e-Health solutions, change management, Help Desk, technical infrastructure, telecommunications, application maintenance and upgrades.”
informationist
One who gathers, analyzes, interprets and uses information. This can be used as a job title.
“The informativeness of the lecture made it easy to understand the complex subject matter.”
“For maximum informativeness, each pedigree collected consisted of 4 grandparents, 2 parents, and 6-11 offspring.”
“Is writing style related to readers' assessments of a story in terms of its interestingness, informativeness, dullness and other story characteristics?”
“A more complete explanation of consumer behavior is based on informedness and pursuit of. products that truly meet individual wants and needs.”
“Historically, informedness of economic agents via price stability has been a rationale for the money supply rule derived from the Quantity Theory of Money.”
“The matter of fact is an accent, which we put on the curiousness of employees with the goods a nd informedness the consumer of his goods.”
“The older idea that informationlessness was to be equated with uniform distributions is vulnerable to the transformational paradoxes.”
“But, Wallace observed, information is not synonymous with meaning, and the meaning of a canon's informationlessness is the certainty of its contents.”