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# interviewer

«interviewer» in Mova's school dictionary: **The person who asks the questions in an interview, for…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an interviewer, interviewers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The person who asks the questions in an interview, for example on TV, radio, in a newspaper or for a job. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interviewer/#m2)

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

### In the corpora

- [Answering a different question to dodge the real one is called a red herring; good interviewers ask the question again.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/178-the-politicians-either-or-and-the-straw-man/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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