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

On being told of Tilly’s existence by an interviewer for Variety, “Please stop,” she insisted, while demanding that mainline studios and talent agencies refrain from trafficking with AI actresses.

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Addressing an interviewer in an April podcast, she noted: “We’re going to have a lot of empty school buildings.”

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She never married or had children, but told interviewers of two great affairs in her youth, one with a married man.

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The interviewer will likely be an experienced presenter or journalist.

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"I will die there," Evans Kibet says, waving his hands in the air towards the unseen interviewer on the video released on Wednesday by a Ukrainian army brigade.

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Related Words

• interrogator 
• reporter