0 to tell someone about particular facts: --
1 to tell someone about something: --
Keep me informed about any job opportunities.
2 to tell someone about something, especially officially: --
keep sb informed Keep the project manager informed about any issue that might have an impact on a project's bottom line.
inform sb of sth When the company was informed of the problems we were experiencing, it took extraordinary steps to help us.
inform sb about sth The industry had a duty to inform the public about the extent of the dangers.
She suspected illegality, and informed the police.
3 to influence something such as an opinion or decision: --
The habits of individual employees are informed by the corporate culture in which they participate.
inform sb's choices/behaviour/decisions There are many factors that inform consumer choices.
4 to give information or to teach someone about something: --
Such information will better inform policymakers concerned with land tenure, resource management, and conflicts in these regions.
Given the limited imaging literature to inform these findings, and the relatively modest associations found in our study, further functional imaging work is required.
It is informed by a particular sense of itself, of its significance and its sense of mission.
If demonstrated, the finding that late-life depression may increase risk of later dementia in certain individuals will inform clinical management of these patients.
The bottom-up priority rule at its essence directs lexical knowledge as to when it can inform phoneme decisions.
However, to inform the par ticipants of the study's aim prior to the recordings could have influenced their speaking style.
Postprocessual writers might have wanted to argue that the interpreted past was socially constructed and that it was informed by evidence.
In patients in whom the diagnosis is uncertain, physicians must, therefore, turn to other diagnostic modalities to inform the selection of appropriate treatments.
