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interviewer

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English

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Etymology

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    From interview + -er.

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    Noun

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    interviewer (plural interviewers)

    1. One who interviews.
      • 2001, Foster Hirsh, quoting Woody Allen, Love, Sex, Death, and the Meaning of Life: The Films of Woody Allen‎[1]:
        “I don't consider myself a nebbish,” Woody told interviewers early in his career, “but everyone else does.”
      • 2021 November 3, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Boxes with functions across the centuries”, in RAIL, number 943, page 54:
        "I am glad to know you preserve that old signal box at the top of the incline. Is it not the oldest in Scotland?" an interviewer asks John Conacher, General Manager of the North British Railway, in 1898.

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    interviewer m (plural interviewers, diminutive interviewertje n)

    1. a male interviewer
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    French

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    Etymology 1

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      From interview (noun) +‎ -er (verbal suffix).[1]

      Pronunciation

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      • IPA(key): /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.ve/, /in.tɛʁ.vju.ve/, (anglicized) /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.we/
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      Verb

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      interviewer

      1. to interview
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      Etymology 2

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        Unadapted borrowing from English interviewer.

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        Pronunciation

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        • IPA(key): /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.vœʁ/, /in.tɛʁ.vju.vœʁ/, (anglicized) /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vju.wœʁ/

        Noun

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        interviewer m (plural interviewers, feminine intervieweuse)

        1. interviewer

        References

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        1. ^ “interviewer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

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