interviewer

[in-ter-vyoo-er]

noun

1. a person who interviews.

2. a peephole in an entrance door.

Word History and Origins

Origin of interviewer¹

First recorded in 1865–70; interview + -er ¹

Example Sentences

"I never asked for too much money, and fame is transient. All I ever wanted was people's love," he told an interviewer.

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When the interviewer asked her how such a theft was possible, she replied that it was “an old problem.”

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She told an interviewer that, at that point, “what the President did vis-a-vis the President of Ukraine just removed all doubt that we had to act.”

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And it reminded me of an old TV clip, of a Japanese interviewer asking Mr. Lloyd, “Where did this tender and unique sound come from?”

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Just as most students at Ohio State University read Liar’s Poker as a how-to manual, most TV and radio interviewers read me as a whistle-blower.

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Related Words

• interrogator 
• reporter