intervieween.
/ˌɪntəvjuːˈiː/, U.S. /ˌɪn(t)ərˌvjuˈi/ A person who is interviewed.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > interrogation > [noun] > interview > person subjected to
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1871 Cincinnati Commerc. 10 Mar. 5/1 Your diligent interviewer is a man not easily disheartened either by the positive ignorance of his interviewee or by his indisposition to impart the envied information.
1965 Listener 20 May 756/2 It [sc. a radio programme] seemed to have caught some of the town-hall atmosphere, tersely described by a teenage interviewee as ‘dead’.
1990 Financial Times 23 Aug. 7/7 Midland Bank is to discriminate positively in favour of disabled people in selecting job interviewees for some computing and administrative posts.
2002 Z. Radcliffe London Irish xvii. 226 I was one of a tripartite of interviewees for Sir David's new series of ten-minute topical interviews on Radio Two.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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