Subscriber login


Forgot your password?

Library card login

Other

interview

Syllabification: (in·ter·view)
Pronunciation: /ˈintərˌvyo͞o/

Translate interview | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish
Definition of interview

noun

  • a meeting of people face to face, especially for consultation.
  • a conversation between a journalist or radio or television presenter and a person of public interest, used as the basis of a broadcast or publication.
  • an oral examination of an applicant for a job, college admission, etc.:I am pleased to advise you that you have been selected for an interview

verb

[with object]
  • hold an interview with (someone):he arrived to be interviewed by a local TV station about the level of unemployment
  • question (someone) to discover their opinions or experience:in a survey more than half the women interviewed hated the label “housewife.”
  • orally examine (an applicant for a job, college admission, etc.):he came to be interviewed for a top job [no object]:I was interviewing all last week
  • [no object] perform (well or badly) at an interview.

Derivatives

interviewee


noun

interviewer

noun

Origin:

early 16th century (formerly also as enterview): from French entrevue, from s'entrevoir 'see each other', from voir 'to see', on the pattern of vue 'a view'

interview in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of interview in the British & World English dictionary