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Interviewer   Listen
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Interviewer  n.  One who interviews; especially, one who obtains an interview with another for the purpose of eliciting his opinions or obtaining information for publication. "It would have made him the prince of interviewers in these days."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Interviewer" Quotes from Famous Books



... Only once was an interviewer bold enough to enter Lewis Carroll's sanctum. The story has been told in The Guardian (January 19, 1898), but ...
— The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll • Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

... quod," the interviewer reported himself as facetiously observing, "the prisoners would be ...
— The Big Bow Mystery • I. Zangwill

... correspondence, solicited the advertisements, and frequently assisted in the wrapping and mailing of the copies sent to their extremely limited list of subscribers. During this time, however, Richard was establishing himself as a star reporter on The Press, and was already known as a clever news-gatherer and interviewer. It was in reply to a letter that Richard wrote to Robert Louis Stevenson enclosing an interview he had had with Walt Whitman, that Stevenson wrote the following letter—which my brother always regarded as one ...
— Adventures and Letters • Richard Harding Davis

... public finance was met by some calm and smiling barrage of eclectic interest. For an hour we played conversational pingpong in the most amiable style. And when Mr. White urbanely confessed that he liked everybody in the House of Commons, even "Bob" Rogers and Dr. Pugsley, it was time for the interviewer to go, before so charmed a Utopia should vanish like a film on a screen, and to conclude that the Finance Minister of Canada was no novice in a certain ...
— The Masques of Ottawa • Domino

... Cattle Kings: Life on the Range Today, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1950. An interviewer's findings without the historical criticism exemplified by Bernard DeVoto on the subject of federal-owned ranges (in essays in Harper's Magazine ...
— Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest • J. Frank Dobie

... The 'interviewer' may make use of it to supply him with 'copy,' but this remains to be seen. There are practical difficulties in the way which need not be told over. Perhaps in railway trains, steamers, and other unsteady vehicles, it will be-used for communications. The telephone may yet ...
— Heroes of the Telegraph • J. Munro

... course, if you want to take the mere vulgar, parochial view—the halfpenny interviewer's view—why, you must take it!' he said, almost ...
— Eleanor • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... be a startling surprise. Those who have seen her rehearse——But mum's the word—an' we could an' we would," etc. Another of the letters was from the art editor of an illustrated weekly asking for a sitting to their photographer for a full-page picture; and the third inclosed the card of an interviewer on an evening paper. Only three days ago Glory would have counted all this as nothing, yet now she could not help but feel ...
— The Christian - A Story • Hall Caine

... The interviewer snorted, even as he marked the card. "That accounts for three greatgrandfathers," he said lightly. "You seem to have made a study of your family tree. What was the ...
— Ultima Thule • Dallas McCord Reynolds



Words linked to "Interviewer" :   inquirer, questioner, asker, interview



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