interviewer

noun

in·​ter·​view·​er ˈin-tər-ˌvyü-ər 

plural interviewers

: a person who conducts an interview : one (such as a journalist or prospective employer) who obtains information from another by asking a series of questions

"I never thought I would live to see this day," John Lewis, King's former Selma ally, tells an NPR interviewer on the afternoon of my arrival.

—Dave Gardetta

The meeting with the interviewer had lasted 10 minutes. The man did not even open a folder in front of him to study Mr. Rucker's résumé.

—Michael Luo

The next evening, a Libyan state-TV crew came to film us. The segment, in which an interviewer asked us to describe the rebels—I said "happy," Manu said "stoned," and Jim said "ill-equipped"—never aired, probably because our black eyes and bruises wouldn't have played well.

—Clare Morgana Gillis

Synonyms of interviewer

• inquirer
• questioner
• pollster

Examples of interviewer in a Sentence

had no time for an interviewer who wanted to ask me about my phone service

Recent Examples on the Web

Stewart’s aversion to talk about politics led a CNN interviewer to refer to her in 2011 as a successful businesswoman and active Republican. —Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 27 Jan. 2026

Carlson can be a tough interviewer. —Jason Zengerle, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026

At the same time, Lively was freshly criticized for her reaction to an interviewer in a resurfaced 2016 clip. —Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026

That includes nine data collection supervisors, 89 interviewers, five lead interviewers and one task manager. —Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 21 Jan. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1868, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for interviewer

• bluer
• breuer
• brewer
• couper
• ewer
• fewer
• fluor
• hewer
• newer
• sewer
• skewer
• truer