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

Examples of interviewer in a Sentence

had no time for an interviewer who wanted to ask me about my phone service
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The story is told nonlinearly and with a larger narrative framing device in which De Niro as an elderly Costello delivers a documentary-style talking head interview to an unseen interviewer, which serves as the voice-over narration for the film. Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 20 Mar. 2025 One of the interviewers then noted their loss to the Rolling Stones at the Grammys. Jack Irvin, People.com, 19 Mar. 2025 But part of being a good interviewer—or the potential leader for a political party or movement—is to offer thoughtful rebuttals to the interviewees’ bad ideas. Steven Greenhut, Orange County Register, 16 Mar. 2025 Disney is not allowing actual journalists onto the red carpet for the premiere of Snow White, instead inviting just photographers and house interviewers, per Variety. Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for interviewer

Word History

First Known Use

1868, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of interviewer was in 1868

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“Interviewer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/interviewer. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.

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