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

• 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

Thinking this way will impress your MMI interviewers with your maturity and empathy. —Kristen Moon, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025

Let the interviewer see your real personality. —Eli Rubel, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2025

Over the weekend, the trio of actors sat with ArtsLife TV, when the interviewer directed a question about Black Lives Matter and #MeToo to Roberts and Garfield, excluding Edebiri altogether. —Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025

The interviewer said again that her question was for Garfield and Roberts. —Zack Sharf, Variety, 8 Sep. 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