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# interview

«interview» in Mova's school dictionary: **a meeting where someone asks a person questions, for a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an interview, interviews); verb (interview, interviews, interviewed, interviewing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An interview is a meeting where someone asks a person questions, for a job, a school place or a news story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interview/#m1)

2) To interview someone is to ask them questions to find out about them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interview/#m2)

3) A conversation recorded for TV, radio or a newspaper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interview/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Used in everyday life (job interviews), school (interview a grandparent for history homework), news and police work. Phrases: «a job interview», «give an interview», «interview someone about».

### examples

- Dad has a job interview tomorrow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interview/#x1)
- We interviewed our grandparents about their childhood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interview/#x2)
- The footballer gave an interview after the match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interview/#x3)
- The police interviewed three witnesses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interview/#x4)
- Prepare questions before your interview. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interview/#x5)
- The TV show interviewed a famous scientist. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interview/#x6)
- Then the Dragon King interviewed the doctor and blamed him for not curing the Queen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interview/#x7)

### note

«An interview» (vowel sound). Interviewer = the one asking; interviewee = the one answering.

### In the corpora

- [A job interview is a meeting where an employer asks questions to decide whom to hire; several people usually compete for one job.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/8/)
- [In November 2019 Prince Andrew stepped back from public duties after a BBC interview about his friendship with a man convicted of serious crimes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/44-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book/22/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «interview» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interview/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.