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in·ter·view

(ĭn′tər-vyo͞o′)

1. A formal meeting in person, especially one arranged for the assessment of the qualifications of an applicant.

a. A conversation, such as one conducted by a reporter, in which facts or statements are elicited from another.

b. An account or a reproduction of such a conversation.

3. Informal An interviewee: an actor who was a tough interview.

v. in·ter·viewed, in·ter·view·ing, in·ter·views

v.tr.

To obtain an interview from.

v.intr.

To have an interview: interviewed with a publishing company.

[French entrevue, from Old French, from feminine past participle of entrevoir, to see : entre-, between (from Latin inter-; see inter-) + voir, to see (from Latin vidēre; see weid- in Indo-European roots).]

in′ter·view′a·ble adj.

in′ter·view·ee′ n.

in′ter·view′er n.

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Noun

interviewer - a person who conducts an interview

asker, enquirer, inquirer, querier, questioner - someone who asks a question

interviewer

noun questioner, reporter, investigator, examiner, interrogator, interlocutor The interviewer did his best to get the truth out of her.

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Translations

مُحَاوِرٌمُقابِل، مُجري المُقابَلَه

tazatel-ka

interviewer

Interviewer Leiter eines Vorstellungsgespräches

άτομο που παίρνει συνέντευξη

entrevistador

haastattelija

intervieweur

onaj koji postavlja pitanja

interjúvoló

spyrill; fréttamaîur

intervistatore

面接者

면접원

interviewer

intervjuer

przeprowadzający wywiad

entrevistador

интервьюер

izpraševalec

intervjuare

ผู้สัมภาษณ์

görüşmecimülâkat yapan kimseröportajcı

người phỏng vấn

会见者采访者面试考官面试者

interviewer

[ˈɪntəvjuːəʳ] N (on radio, for job) → entrevistador(a) m/f

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interviewer

[ˈɪntə^rvjuːə^r] n (on TV, radio) → intervieweur/euse m/f

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interviewer

n (for job) → Leiter(in) m(f) → des Vorstellungsgesprächs; (Press, TV etc) → Interviewer(in) m(f)

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interviewer

[ˈɪntəvjuːəʳ] n (on radio, TV) → intervistatore/trice

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

interview

(ˈintəvjuː) noun

a formal meeting and discussion with someone, eg a person applying for a job, or a person with information to broadcast on radio or television.

verb

to question (a person) in an interview. They interviewed seven people for the job; He was interviewed by reporters about his policies.

ˈinterviewer noun

interviewer

→ مُحَاوِرٌ tazatel interviewer Leiter eines Vorstellungsgespräches άτομο που παίρνει συνέντευξη entrevistador haastattelija intervieweur onaj koji postavlja pitanja intervistatore 面接者 면접원 interviewer intervjuer przeprowadzający wywiad entrevistador интервьюер intervjuare ผู้สัมภาษณ์ görüşmeci người phỏng vấn 面试考官

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That fated philosopher had consented, in a somewhat dazed manner, to receive the interviewer, and had named the hour of nine that evening.

"But see here, I had an appointment," said the interviewer, with a rising voice.

I remembered the Yankee interviewer I had forgotten.

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"And you found yourself instead the victim of an interviewer! What a drop from the romantic to the prosaic!"

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THE ESCAPED WOLF PERILOUS ADVENTURE OF OUR INTERVIEWER

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The interview was brief, and the interviewer could not help feeling although treated with pleasant courtesy, that more important matters were in hand than the perpetuation of a romancer's countenance to future generations; but a friendly family acquaintance grew up from the incident, and will remain an abiding memory.

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Son, that's dope for the newspaper interviewer. The only heart-bond I know is a stout stick with some iron on the end of it."

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You're my interviewer. No, I didn't think any of you fellows had got all that in you.

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Miss Haldin, without turning her face my way, told me that the end was brought about by the appearance of the interviewer, who had been closeted with Madame de S .

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"I have really been plagued to death since I got here with interviewers, and that sort of person.

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But it was a revelation to us that it was possible to keep so quiet as that in the latter half of the nineteenth century-- the age of newspapers and telegrams and photographs and interviewers. And she had taken no great trouble about it either: she had not hidden herself away in an undiscoverable hole; she had boldly settled down in a city of exhibition.

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Butteridge, it became evident, was a man singularly free from any false modesty--indeed, from any modesty of any kind--singularly willing to see interviewers, answer questions upon any topic except aeronautics, volunteer opinions, criticisms, and autobiography, supply portraits and photographs of himself, and generally spread his personality across the terrestrial sky.