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# interviewee

«interviewee» in Mova's school dictionary: **asked questions in an interview, for example for a job, a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an interviewee, interviewees)

### meaning for a pupil

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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interviewee/#m2)

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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