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police informer

collocation in English

meanings of policeand informer


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police
noun[plural]
uk /pəˈliːs/ us /pəˈliːs/
the official organization that is responsible for protecting people and property, making people obey the law, finding out about and solving crime, and catching people who have committed ...
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informer
noun[C]
uk /ɪnˈfɔː.mər/ us /ɪnˈfɔːr.mɚ/
a person who gives information in secret, especially to ...
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Examples of police informer


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Is everyone who gives evidence, other than a policeman, a policeinformer?
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The best example, of course, is the policeinformer or informant.
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The top candidate on one list was exposed as a secret policeinformer four days before the election and too late to change the list.
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The relatives of the boy have consistently stated that he was not a policeinformer.
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It is like in the case of a policeinformer.
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I was trying to deal with the point that if one reports a serious offence one is a policeinformer.
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Nine times out of 10 it is from a criminal who grasses or from a policeinformer.
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I remember once prosecuting a case and standing by a policeinformer.
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He was despised by some of his underworld peers as a suspected policeinformer and a coward.
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The source of the accusations was believed to be an unmentioned policeinformer.
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If one disagreed he immediately became suspect and was classified as a policeinformer.
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However, he was feared mainly as a policeinformer.
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The offence did not come to light until over a year later, after a policeinformer who had acted as an accomplice had been arrested attempting to imitate the pair.
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Meanwhile, a network of police informers was established, who were paid 'according to the value of their information'.
When the gang reconvenes after a month's hiatus, one of the members who had turned a police informer betrays the gang and gives them away to the police.
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Noah becomes a paid, semi-professional policeinformer.
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Intertitles at the beginning of the film explain that its title refers both to a kind of hat and to the slang term for a policeinformer.
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As stated in the preceding part, use of police informers is not a reliable method of enforcing legislation since it carries with it a high element of risk.
Many people in prison are police informers or are otherwise compromised, as it were.
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There is complete censorship, complete police control, complete secret police information, and police informers are rife.
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They are constantly obtaining information, some of which is accurate and some of which is less accurate, from police informers.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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