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Nov 30, 2009
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in•form•ant



Pronunciation: (in-fôr'munt), [key]
—n.
1. a person who informs or gives information; informer.
2. a person who supplies social or cultural data in answer to the questions of an investigator.
3. Ling.a native speaker of a language who supplies utterances and forms for one analyzing or learning the language.

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