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.
–verb (used with object)
4.
to have an interview with in order to question, consult, or evaluate: to interview a job applicant; to interview the president.
–verb (used without object)
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.
Origin: 1505–15; inter-+ view; r. enterview < MF entrevue, n. use of fem. of entrevu, ptp. of entrevoir to glimpse
A formal meeting in person, especially one arranged for the assessment of the qualifications of an applicant.
A conversation, such as one conducted by a reporter, in which facts or statements are elicited from another.
An account or a reproduction of such a conversation.
Informal An interviewee: "I had been warned that [he] was a tough interview—that he doled out flip answers ... to questions he was tired of being asked"(David Roberts).
v.
in·ter·viewed, in·ter·view·ing, in·ter·views
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.