informer's privilege

1. 1.

   the right of the government to refuse to reveal the identity of an informer

   Broaderprivilege

Questions about informer's privilege

What does informer's privilege mean?

informer's privilege means "the right of the government to refuse to reveal the identity of an informer".

Is informer's privilege a common word?

informer's privilege is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.