interview
Americannoun
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interviews
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a formal meeting in which one or more persons question, consult, or evaluate another person.
a job interview.
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a meeting or conversation in which a writer or reporter asks questions of one or more persons from whom material is sought for a newspaper story, television broadcast, etc.
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the report of such a conversation or meeting.
verb (used with object)
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interviews,
present (3rd person singular)
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interviewed,
past participle, past
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interviewing
present participle
verb (used without object)
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interviews,
present (3rd person singular)
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interviewed,
past participle, past
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interviewing
present participle
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to have an interview; be interviewed (sometimes followed bywith ).
She interviewed with eight companies before accepting a job.
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to give or conduct an interview.
to interview to fill job openings.
noun
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a conversation with or questioning of a person, usually conducted for television, radio, or a newspaper
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a formal discussion, esp one in which an employer assesses an applicant for a job
verb
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to conduct an interview with (someone)
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(intr) to be interviewed, esp for a job
he interviewed well and was given the position
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
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intervieweenoun
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interviewernoun
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preinterviewnoun
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reinterviewnoun
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self-interviewnoun
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interviewableadjective
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quasi-interviewedadjective
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uninterviewedadjective
Inflected Forms
Nouns
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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interviewsimple
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interviewssimple
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have interviewedperfect
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has interviewedperfect
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am interviewingprogressive
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are interviewingprogressive
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is interviewingprogressive
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have been interviewingperfect progressive
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has been interviewingperfect progressive
Past
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interviewedsimple
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had interviewedperfect
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was interviewingprogressive
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were interviewingprogressive
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had been interviewingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of interview
First recorded in 1505–15; inter- + view; replacing enterview, from Middle French entrevue, noun use of feminine of entrevu “glimpsed,” past participle of entrevoir “to glimpse,” from entre “between” + voir “to see”
Explanation
Interview can be a verb or a noun, but whatever form it takes, it involves a formal meeting and asking or answering questions. When you go to a job interview, be prepared to answer questions about your strengths and weaknesses. The noun form of interview refers to a question-and-answer session. You’ve probably seen a TV interview with a famous person, or you may have gone to an interview with a college admissions director. The verb form of the word describes the act of asking the questions. You might interview a local politician for your school paper. Often an interview involves some kind of evaluation, so speak carefully if someone is interviewing you, especially if it's going to be published!
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It was the same day he had been due to have an interview with family court representatives about his father.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
In another interview Thursday with pro-Trump outlet Real America's Voice, Zacharia said she had registered to take the bar exam but was "distracted and overwhelmed" by plans to move to China with her husband.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
“I’m not rushing to buy on the dip right now,” Johnson said in a phone interview with MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
“It is the first step toward tokenizing securities,” Cuomo, the former governor of New York, said in a recent interview with The Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Too late, I realized my misstep—Anna May had wanted to use my arrival as an excuse to end the interview, and I’d botched that for her.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
Rauh wrote that Solana conducted “on-the-record” interviews with his subjects, but I do not think that term means what he thinks it means.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
One of the things that you said in other interviews, and I think you actually said this in the documentary as well, is that you used to be a fan of Elon Musk’s products.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
The heart of a modern executive search process is an assessment that includes extensive interviews, elaborate background and reference checks—along with psychological testing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Rauh told me by email that Solana’s purported interviews “are not part of the analysis” of the likelihood of billionaire flight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
In 1917, Charles S. Johnson, a black sociologist and later the first black president of Fisk University, captured some of their stories in interviews with Mississippi migrants about their move to Chicago.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
For the hundreds at the protest in Bangkok, as well as for rights groups and analysts interviewed by AFP, that message is the wrong one.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
Aarthi Swaminathan interviewed retirees who have moved to be closer to their children and grandchildren.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Many of the passengers interviewed for this article said they’ve found airlines like Southwest and Frontier to be far better than legacy carriers when it comes to barf-bag availability.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
After the debate, NBC reporter Robert Kovacic interviewed elected officials to let them hype up Bass or Raman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
The Eisman Vinny had interviewed with was, by the standards of Wall Street analysts, honest.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
According to local media reports, police had struggled to establish details of alleged abuse when interviewing residents, because most of them had severe disabilities and faced difficulties communicating.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
I would be interviewing a parent who says, “It’s important that my kid not get involved with chatbots,” and they’re on ChatGPT every day.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026
You could "seem too relaxed and a little bit flippant, like you're not taking it seriously enough, or you are interviewing the employer rather than the other way round".
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
There’s a clip in the documentary of this interview that’s become very famous, of Woody Allen interviewing you when you were also 17.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
She wished she could gather her Clue Crew around her and get back to work: searching for clues, interviewing witnesses, anything.
From "The Cinderella Ballet Mystery: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #4" by Carolyn Keene
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