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# interviewer

noun (an interviewer, interviewers)

«interviewer» 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 asks the questions in an interview, for example on TV, radio, in a newspaper or for a job. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interviewer/#m1)
2. A person who asks people questions for a survey or a study. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interviewer/#m2)

### In the lessons

In English and media lessons pupils play the interviewer, plan open questions and take notes; in history projects they interview older relatives. In news and stories the interviewer leads the conversation and can be friendly or tough. Phrases: a TV interviewer, the interviewer asked, a tough interviewer.

### Examples

- The interviewer asked me why I wanted to join the club. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interviewer/#x1)
- A famous interviewer spoke to the prime minister on the radio. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interviewer/#x2)
- As the interviewer, you should ask open questions. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interviewer/#x3)
- The interviewer wrote down every answer. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interviewer/#x4)
- Our class interviewer asked the firefighter about his job. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interviewer/#x5)
- The interviewer was kind, so I stopped feeling nervous. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interviewer/#x6)
- A survey interviewer knocked on our door and asked about recycling. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interviewer/#x7)

### Note

Countable: an interviewer, interviewers. «-er» = the one who asks; «-ee» = the one who answers (interviewee). Spelling: «interview» + «-er», with «ie» as in «view».

## On Mova

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