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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
interviewer
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
television
▪ The royal family, he told a television interviewer eight years later, was safe with him.
■ VERB
ask
▪ If you have been targeting the wrong field, ask the interviewer which field he or she thinks would be more suitable.
tell
▪ Several studies have indeed found that women consistently fail to tell interviewers about their abortions.
▪ She actually told interviewers that the first lady she admired most was Dolley Madison!
▪ He wanted to communicate something about black dancers, he would later tell an interviewer.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ My most shocking moment as an interviewer was when a movie star came on drunk and threatened to him my other guests.
▪ Paxman is seen as a tough interviewer who rarely lets politicians off the hook.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Interviewer

Interviewer \In"ter*view`er\, n. One who interviews; especially, one who obtains an interview with another for the purpose of eliciting his opinions or obtaining information for publication.

It would have made him the prince of interviewers in these days.
--Leslie Stephen.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
interviewer

1869, agent noun from interview (v.).

Wiktionary
interviewer

n. One who interviews.

WordNet
interviewer

n. a person who conducts an interview

Usage examples of "interviewer".

Interviewer: For six years from 1960-66 Carlos Castaneda served as an apprentice to a Yaqui Indian brujo, or sorcerer named don Juan.

The next morning, as the Interviewer took his seat on a bench outside his door, to smoke his after-breakfast cigar, a bright-looking and handsome youth, whose features recalled those of Euthymia so strikingly that one might feel pretty sure he was her brother, took a seat by his side.

But I've got one marketable talent-what the interviewer called a peculiarly coordinative affinity for multiplex circuitry.

The eyes of the interviewers glazed over as the putative lovebirds discussed assortative mating, the differentiation between penetrance and expres­sivity on the one hand and dominance and epistasis on the other, and the uncertainty of positive eugenics.

Interviewers on the program tended to go for the jugular, yet it was important, if the victim was to come back for more, that he have some element of self-esteem restored.

That Blowitz the brilliant and hard-headed reporter and interviewer was at the same time an incurable romantic with a taste for melodrama and love of the sensational, is obvious from his Memoirs, a highly entertaining work made up of material published in his lifetime and episodes dictated in his last year.

At Columbia College (where he was admitted because he charmed an interviewer, scored well on the intelligence test, and wasn't a New Yorker) he barely avoided expulsion for bad grades.

When interviewers asked if her father had taught her to write, she said: “He taught me something about storytelling, and squash.

And I bet if all six of us marched over to one of those autonomic TV interviewers, like one of Lucky Bagman's, and told it, they'd find time to take off from babbling about those satellites long enough to demand that justice be done!

The second metaphor was probably the better of the two, but you couldn't very well tell interviewers that as far as you were concerned, such things as dreams and vague longings and sensations like déjà-vu really came down to nothing more than a bunch of mental farts.

They retreated to the fringes of the crowd, well away from the cameras and interviewers, to weep bitter tears and plan future revenges.

Chantelle allowed herself just a few appearances with some of the more important interviewers, where she was immediately humble, self-effacing, and just delighted to be able to do her small bit to make this very special day a success.

As I tend to say to friends or interviewers who ask about Simmons’s prose appearing on the screen—“I’ll believe it when I’m eating popcorn in the theater and watching the final credit crawl.

While I was sitting there pontificating on freedom of the press and being congratulated for my forth­rightness by the interviewers (Why are they all so alike?

Kraft wandered in from his study where he had gone to answer a private phone call, leaving the interviewer to sip his perfectly mixed drink and admire the view.