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# interviewee

noun (an interviewee, interviewees)

«interviewee» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. The person who is asked questions in an interview, for example for a job, a school place, a newspaper or a TV programme. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interviewee/#m1)
2. A person who answers the questions in a survey or research study. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interviewee/#m2)

### In the lessons

In English lessons pupils write interview questions and act as interviewer and interviewee; in history and science projects they interview grandparents or experts; in news reports the interviewee is the person speaking. Phrases: the interviewee said, put the interviewee at ease, job interviewee.

### Examples

- The interviewee sat down and smiled nervously. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interviewee/#x1)
- Our interviewee for the school magazine was the head teacher. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interviewee/#x2)
- Each interviewee answered the same five questions. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interviewee/#x3)
- The reporter thanked the interviewee at the end. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interviewee/#x4)
- In the role play, Sam was the interviewer and I was the interviewee. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interviewee/#x5)
- The interviewee told us what school was like in 1960. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interviewee/#x6)
- A good interviewer lets the interviewee finish speaking. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interviewee/#x7)

### Note

Countable: an interviewee, interviewees. The ending «-ee» means the person something is done to (employee, trainee), while «-er» means the person who does it: the interviewer asks, the interviewee answers. Stress on the last syllable: in-ter-view-EE.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «interviewee» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interviewee/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«interviewee» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/interviewee.html) on Mova free.