[in-ter-vyoo] 
| 1. | a formal meeting in which one or more persons question, consult, or evaluate another person: a job interview. |
| 2. | a meeting or conversation in which a writer or reporter asks questions of one or more persons from whom material is sought for a newspaper story, television broadcast, etc. |
| 3. | the report of such a conversation or meeting. |
| 4. | to have an interview with in order to question, consult, or evaluate: to interview a job applicant; to interview the president. |
| 5. | to have an interview; be interviewed (sometimes fol. by with): She interviewed with eight companies before accepting a job. |
| 6. | to give or conduct an interview: to interview to fill job openings. |
| in·ter·view (ĭn'tər-vyōō') n.
v. tr. To obtain an interview from. v. intr. To have an interview: interviewed with a publishing company. [French entrevue, from Old French, from feminine past participle of entrevoir, to see : entre-, between (from Latin inter-; see inter-) + voir, to see (from Latin vidēre; see weid- in Indo-European roots).] in'ter·view'a·ble adj., in'ter·view·ee' n., in'ter·view'er n. |
"The 'interview,' as at present managed, is generally the joint product of some humbug of a hack politician and another humbug of a newspaper reporter." ["The Nation," Jan. 28, 1869]The verb meaning "to have a personal meeting" is from 1548.
tərˌvyu