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inform | American Dictionary

inform
verb[ T ]
us/ɪnˈfɔrm/
to tell someone about something:
Keep me informed about any job opportunities.
She informed her tenants that she was raising the rent.

inform | Business English

inform
verb
uk /ɪnˈfɔːm/us
[ T ]
to tell someone about something, especially officially:
She suspected illegality, and informed the police.
inform sb about sthThe industry had a duty to inform the public about the extent of the dangers.
inform sb of sthWhen the company was informed of the problems we were experiencing, it took extraordinary steps to help us.
inform sb thatHe informed me that he intended to resign.
keep sb informedKeep the project manager informed about any issue that might have an impact on a project's bottom line.
[ T ]
to influence something such as an opinion or decision:
inform sb's choices/behaviour/decisionsThere are many factors that inform consumer choices.
The habits of individual employees are informed by the corporate culture in which they participate.
[ I or T ]
to give information or to teach someone about something:
The news media has an enormous capacity to inform and educate.
inform sb about sthThere are many innovative ways to inform kids about the world they live in.

Examples of inform

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Although recruits were informed of the purpose of the interview, they were not provided with a copy of the interview schedule in advance.
Indeed, genetically informed studies, in many cases, have supported these main effects, although their magnitude is sometimes less than previously supposed.
Therefore, these methods implicitly assume that there is no uncertainty surrounding the decision that the proposed research is supposed to inform.
We now turn to a brief characterization of the three approaches - structural, functional, and dynamical - which inform our account of neural organization.
Consequently, interventions may affect factors not targeted by program components and these nontargeted effects may inform developmental theories.
For the phone screening, verbal informed consent was obtained.
In patients in whom the diagnosis is uncertain, physicians must, therefore, turn to other diagnostic modalities to inform the selection of appropriate treatments.
Postprocessual writers might have wanted to argue that the interpreted past was socially constructed and that it was informed by evidence.
However, to inform the par ticipants of the study's aim prior to the recordings could have influenced their speaking style.
The bottom-up priority rule at its essence directs lexical knowledge as to when it can inform phoneme decisions.
If demonstrated, the finding that late-life depression may increase risk of later dementia in certain individuals will inform clinical management of these patients.
It is informed by a particular sense of itself, of its significance and its sense of mission.
Given the limited imaging literature to inform these findings, and the relatively modest associations found in our study, further functional imaging work is required.
Such information will better inform policymakers concerned with land tenure, resource management, and conflicts in these regions.
To inform research priority setting, a measure of the societal value of resolving a particular research question is required.
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