Interview

Quick meaning: Interview is a noun meaning Any face-to-face meeting, especially of an official or adversarial nature.

Meaning

Any face-to-face meeting, especially of an official or adversarial nature.

More Meanings

1. A formal meeting, in person, for the assessment of a candidate or applicant.
2. An audition.
3. A police interrogation of a suspect or party in an investigation.
4. (transitive) To ask questions of (somebody); to have an interview.
5. (intransitive) To be interviewed; to attend an interview.
6. A conversation in person (or, by extension, over the telephone, Internet etc.) between a journalist and someone whose opinion or statements he or she wishes to record for publication, broadcast etc.
7. (obsolete) An official face-to-face meeting of monarchs or other important figures.

Example Sentences

He interviewed the witness.

The witness was interviewed.

He has a job interview on Saturday.

A very famous journalist interviewed him.

Word Forms

• interviews
• interviewing
• interviewed

Synonyms for interview

Depending on context, synonyms include audience, question, consultation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include consultation, question, audience, interviewee, examination, investigation.

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