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Interview   /ˈɪntərvjˌu/  /ˈɪnərvjˌu/   Listen
Interview

noun
1.
The questioning of a person (or a conversation in which information is elicited); often conducted by journalists.
2.
A conference (usually with someone important).  Synonyms: audience, consultation.  "He requested an audience with the king"
verb
1.
Conduct an interview in television, newspaper, and radio reporting.  Synonym: question.
2.
Discuss formally with (somebody) for the purpose of an evaluation.
3.
Go for an interview in the hope of being hired.



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"Interview" Quotes from Famous Books



... Ned. "The king's two brothers are coming here. Something's up. He's sent some of the family to interview us. Get ready to ...
— Tom Swift in Captivity • Victor Appleton
... he was weighed down with a greater weight of fear than that which he had brought to the interview. Vera rose as soon as he left her, closed the door, and lay down again. She had found consolation and help in Raisky's friendship, his sympathy and devotion, as a drowning man rises to the surface for a moment, but as soon as he was gone she fell back ...
— The Precipice • Ivan Goncharov
... proud, and high, And yet her look is kind, And the calm light within her eye Speaks an unruffled mind. "Dar comes anodder ob dem tramps," She mumbles low in wrath, "I know dose sleek Centennial chaps Quick as dey mounts de path." A-axing ob a lady's age I tink is impolite, And when dey gins to interview I disremembers quite. Dar was dat spruce photometer Dat tried to take my head, And Mr. Squibbs, de porterer, Wrote down each word I said. Six hundred years I t'ought it was, Or else it was sixteen— Yes; I'd shook hands wid Washington And likewise ...
— The Wit of Women - Fourth Edition • Kate Sanborn
... before the final peal of thunder. Verses 1 to 3 seem, at first sight, out of place, as interrupting the narrative, since Moses' denunciation and prophecy in verses 4 to 8 must have been spoken at the interview with Pharaoh which we find going on at the end of the preceding chapter. But it is legitimate to suppose that, at the very moment when Pharaoh was blustering and threatening, and Moses was bearding him, giving back scorn for scorn, the latter heard with the inward ear the voice which made Pharaoh's ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers • Alexander Maclaren
... very becomingly and donned a long raincoat for fear of a shower. But all the while her thoughts were concerned with the coming distasteful interview, and she kept rehearsing mentally her part in it. She wished it were over—she wished she had never tried to get up a Belgian Relief concert—she wished she had not quarreled with Irene. After all, ...
— Rilla of Ingleside • Lucy Maud Montgomery


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