inform

inform (one) about (something)

To share information about something with one. Have you informed Phil about the time change for Saturday's dinner? Don't worry, I'll inform the investors about your illness, and we'll reschedule the meeting.
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inform (one) of (something)

To share information about something with one. Have you informed Phil of the time change for Saturday's dinner? Don't worry, I'll inform the investors of your illness, and we'll reschedule the meeting.
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inform against (one)

To share or reveal compromising or incriminating information about one, especially to the police or other figures of authority. If you inform against him to the cops, he'll definitely send some of his goons out after you. Yeah, I know about your shady deals, but I didn't inform against you, I swear!
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inform on (one)

To share or reveal compromising or incriminating information about one, especially to the police or other figures of authority. If you inform on him to the cops, he'll definitely send some of his goons out after you. Yeah, I know about your shady deals, but I didn't inform on you, I swear!
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

inform on someone

to tell the authorities about someone; to tattle on someone. I am going to have to inform on you. Liz informed on Ken to their mother.
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inform someone about someone or something

to tell someone about someone or something. How is my friend Tom getting on? I asked you to inform me about him from time to time. Please inform me about the state of the contract for the book.
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inform someone of something

to tell someone a fact. Please inform Sally of my decision. Sally has been informed of your decision.
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inform someone on someone

to tattle (on someone) (to someone). I will inform the teacher on you! Billy informed his mother on Bobby.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

inform on

or inform against
v.
To disclose confidential or incriminating evidence about someone to an authority: The FBI agent informed on the drug dealers. You can't force me to inform against my own family.
See also: inform, on
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • inform (one) about (something)
  • inform (one) of (something)
  • inform about
  • inform of
  • informed
  • draw (something) to (someone's) attention
  • draw to attention
  • put (one) wise
  • put somebody wise
  • put someone wise
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Officials from Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) informed the committee that so far eight kidney transplants have been done in the hospital while there is a need to make further improvements in Bone Marrow department.
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The essence of my argument is that the ideas packaged by medical practitioners in the informed consent communication and delivered verbally are most likely vastly dissimilar from those extracted, understood and eventually internalised by the patient-upon which she eventually decides.
Dare we rethink informed consent?
As patients have become more informed consumers, the "doctor knows best" model of care has given way to an expectation that patients know best what they would want done regarding their health.
Informed consent: is your patient competent to refuse treatment? Adult patients with psychotic disorders are not automatically or always incompetent
To completely understand why students come to business schools with inaccurate information about business topics, it is useful to explore how they are informed prior to arriving at college.
Implications for labor-management education
The CEO informed during first quarter of current financial year; SIDCL will complete three major schemes of infrastructure improvement which include 8.1 km long Manghopir Road from Jam Chakro to Banaras Chowk; 6.9 km Manghopir Road from Banaras Chowk to Nishter Road, 6.4 km Nishter Road from Teen Hatti to Napier Road and construction of three flyovers along Sher Shah Suri road at Sakhi Hassan, Five Star and KDA roundabout.
Alvi briefed on projects funded by Centre
'Even myself as the minister in charge of parliament, I was not informed,' he told reporters outside the Dewan Rakyat, today.
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The meeting was informed that the department has 14 accords with states across the world.
Senate standing body meeting on climate change held
Shinal was unable to recall being informed of the relative risks of the surgery, other than coma and death.
Shinal v. Toms: It's now harder to get informed consent
It was concluded that the dental practitioners of Lahore have a good awareness about questions concerning patients' informed consent but a considerable number of participants was not using written consent as a routine procedure.
A SURVEY ON PATIENT'S INFORMED CONSENT AMONG DENTAL PRACTITIONERS OF LAHORE
The clerk informed her that her medical record showed that a tubal ligation had been performed and that the bill was correct.
Informed consent: the more you know, the more you and your patient are protected: a dubious case of informed consent illustrates the essentials of an ever-changing process
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Traditionally, medical care has been informed, if one wanted to use this term, by the need to relieve the suffering of the patient through the use of medical knowledge and expertise acquired during specialized training, ft is the sort of care that the Hippocratic Oath speaks of.
Unmasking trauma-informed care
Lim said he should have been informed first before Smartmatic's Marlon Garcia changed the transparency script.
Will heads roll in Smartmatic's protocol breach in script tweak?
Ambassador of Iran informed that Iran is planning to organise Single Country Exhibition at Karachi in September, 2016.
Envoy of Iran meets with Chief Executive TDAP