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

• canvasser
• canvaser
• poller
• 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

In 2003, an interviewer bluntly asked whether Xi Jinping had enjoyed a privileged lifestyle as a child. —Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025

Add in something the interviewer doesn’t ask about. —Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025

Erika Eleniak, the former Baywatch star who also appeared in projects ranging from Tales From the Crypt Presents: Bordello of Blood and Aftershock: Earthquake in New York, visited baritone interviewer Steve Kmetko at his Still Here Hollywood podcast recording studio this week. —Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 24 June 2025

Still, Depp, like Pitt, has to charm an interviewer for the sake of promoting his movie. —Martha Ross, Mercury News, 24 June 2025

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