Definition of interview in English:

interview

noun ˈɪntəvjuːˈɪn(t)ərˌvju

1A meeting of people face to face, especially for consultation.
Example sentencesExamples
- Neither the preliminary interview nor the consultation seemed to define what patients actually worried about.
- In time, however, phone calls, meetings and interviews confirmed his authenticity.
- It is also possible to assess quality without quantitative measures, by using approaches such as peer review, videoing consultations, and patient interviews.
- I couldn't go, I had interviews and meetings, but was jealous of those who did, as I've never been surfing in my life.
- Host periodic meetings or interviews with team members in order to gather feedback on what's working and what's not.
- The subsequent interviews and meetings followed accepted methods of qualitative research, and we believe the results to be an accurate reflection of the participants' views.
- Questionnaires, snapshot surveys, focus groups, interviews, consultation meetings and postal consultation have been used to build the review.
- Qualitative methods, specifically interviews and focus group meetings, were used.
- I tried having meetings, disciplinary interviews and discussing issues, but they still do nothing.
- Main outcome measures: Participants' views and commonly observed responses during consultations and interviews.
- The consultants conducted face-to-face interviews with children and organised focus groups.
- Due diligence, company interviews and developer meetings will require travel.
- Some 45% of asylum seekers do not turn up for official meetings or interviews with State authorities.
- By grounding interviews in recent consultation, we sought to minimise generalised or idealised accounts.
- In line with the interviews, respondents rated consultation space with the physician as most important.
- I had invited a few friends of mine, along with two officials I had the pleasure of meeting through some work-related interviews, to dinner at my place.
- Comparisons between transcripts of consultations and subsequent interviews indicated that most patients were able to recall some or most of the information given to them.
- Most research on patients' agendas has focused either on the consultation or on interviews with either doctors or patients
- I had to attend a visa interview at the US consulate there.
Synonyms
meeting, discussion, conference, question and answer session, examination, evaluation, interrogation
audience, talk, dialogue, exchange
talks
informal rap session, confab
formal confabulation, interlocution
1. 1.1 A conversation between a journalist or radio or television presenter and a person of public interest, used as the basis of a broadcast or publication.
  a half-hour interview with the prime minister
  Example sentencesExamples
  In an interview with a television news reporter, the minister said some farmers were still mistreating their workers.
  She spent Monday morning doing television and radio interviews and followed that up with an afternoon of newspaper press conferences.
  Also, I did an interview with a journalist from a woman's magazine yesterday, about parent bloggers.
  Councillors gained invaluable tips on how best they should approach radio and television interviews and build up good relationships with journalists.
  Jorge himself began making appearances in schools and on public radio and gave interviews to newspapers and magazines.
  His staff is expected to complain about a heated interview with him broadcast on Scottish Television.
  He also gave an interview with a Dutch radio station, the web audio transcript of which a Dutch friend kindly located for me.
  Magazine articles, radio interviews and some television appearances have happened for me, so I feel good about that, too.
  I remember a television interview with him early in his career, at the Belgian Grand Prix.
  It is based on a true story, framed by an investigative journalist's interview with his elusive subject and told mostly in flashback.
  As the president battles back on the war in Iraq with a series of television interviews, are journalists giving him a fair hearing?
  After my exclusive interview with the pigs' owner, every journalist was after him.
  A third has more than 250 interviews from radio, television, newspapers, and scholarly journals.
  In four weeks he did 18 television interviews and 36 radio broadcasts alone.
  Iranian television news carried an interview with a woman who had lost uncles and aunts and her two children, while her husband had suffered a broken back and legs.
  His critics in the party also shunned his long-time penchant for rushing to Dublin for radio and television interviews with RTE.
  In an interview with Cable Television, Lee said the proposal will only deter future democratic development in Hong Kong.
  The documentary features exclusive interviews as well as radio and television footage from the time.
  I spoke to the Spanish wire service and that led to an interview with a Mexican radio station, which was quite interesting.
  This is why presidents give interviews to television journalists.
2. 1.2 An oral examination of an applicant for a job, college place, etc.
  I am pleased to advise you that you have been selected for interview
  Example sentencesExamples
  Though this is not possible under all circumstances, this is relevant when you are going for an interview for a college admission.
  College officials feared about a dozen students had lost work that they needed for pre-entry interviews at other colleges.
  The former Wimbledon College pupil, of Donnington Road, had been due to attend an interview at Carshalton College to train as a motor mechanic when he died.
  The 17 year old's application to study medicine was rejected after an interview at Magdalen College, Oxford.
  Furthermore, a consular official must interview applicants unless the interview is waived.
  Candidates were due to arrive in Bradford tonight for the two-day selection process, but yesterday the council announced it was calling off the interviews after three applicants had pulled out.
  He is now seeking admission to a post-graduate course in Social Work and has already faced an interview at Loyola College.
  Every year the school spots children disillusioned with traditional study and through college and school interviews identifies those who would thrive doing more work-based learning.
  During the interview, analyse applicants' skills and compare them with the job requirements to make a short list.
  Perhaps not surprisingly, the researchers found that employers were considerably more likely to offer interviews and jobs to applicants with white names.
  She was selected from 3,000 applicants after two interviews to attend the 1950s-style boarding school.
  Candidates are selected by in-person interviews only.
  After four auditions, an interview and written examination Joseph was accepted into the course of music performance.
  Three potential students have already been invited for an interview at the college next week.
  Now the sub-committee must sit down this week and examine the applications and will conduct interviews with the six men.
  Health bosses travelled to Madrid last month for a first wave of interviews with 14 applicants.
  According to the election regulation, the council's 11 factions would select the candidates through interviews.
  Each of us can articulate a kind of formal Australian that we might use at work, for meetings, job interviews and the like.
  The lucky few were selected after three rounds of examinations and interviews.
  He is also taking his campaign to Britain and interviews with applicants from both countries will take place in London early next year.
3. 1.3 A session of formal questioning of a person by the police.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The evidence in chief of the complainant was given at trial in the form of a video of her interview in the police station.
  Despite being held for hours by police, his official interview ceased after only two questions when he refused to answer.
  I was in conversation with the respondent about his views on the tape-recording of formal interviews at the police station.
  After a few tense moments, officers relieved him of the weapon and ammunition and escorted him to the Soi 9 police station for an interview.
  For the first time, pictures taken during police interviews show Britain's worst serial killer refusing to look at photographs of victims and claiming another elderly patient was a drug addict.
  The conclusion of the prosecution case were interviews that the police had had with the Appellant.
  Particularly in view of the attitude that the appellant adopted during his interviews with the police, he is only entitled to a modest discount for his plea.
  During a series of frank interviews at Alton police station, he admitted he had pushed a young Asian man he had seen apparently laughing at him near a lamp-post.
  The jury could accept the admissions made by the appellant in the course of the interview with police officers.
  Those who broke the law in the recent stings are undergoing formal interviews and police are considering whether to prosecute.
  He said that during four interviews with detectives, police had produced no evidence of that he was involved in the break-in.
  He failed to recall these details and the entire Blackpool trip in police interviews in 1997.
  Highly questionable police interviews of the suspect were conducted.
  The man was due to spend a second night at Scunthorpe Police Station, with interviews again today.
  The tape of the police interview of the appellant was to be transcribed, agreed, filed and served.
  It regards a course of official questioning by a police officer as an interview.
  During the interview, the police officer left the room leaving the door unlocked.
  Firstly, she gave a very full account in long interviews with experienced police officers.
  However the tapes of all the police interviews were subsequently produced to counsel and were made exhibits in this trial.
  The police interview of the first defendant took place only in January 2002.

verb ˈɪntəvjuːˈɪn(t)ərˌvju

[with object]

1Hold an interview with (someone)
she was interviewed by a reporter from the Daily News
police are keen to interview two men seen nearby
Example sentencesExamples
- He is deaf too, reporters are going mad interviewing him because they have to learn sign languages.
- He started in unblushing manner, giving a parking ticket to the Press reporter who had gone to interview him.
- People want you in their films, and people want to interview you.
- He interviewed me and reported in the government paper what I said about gay and lesbian rights quite accurately.
- I've also asked reporters to interview me, sometimes first sketching a hypothetical scenario.
- Reporters all stormed forward trying to interview her.
- One afternoon in the early Seventies I arrived to interview him at his house in the country.
- I was the first person that got to interview her after her fall.
- One day, a magazine editor called Young and asked if he could send a reporter to interview him on his successful record.
- When reporters went to interview her about the campaign they found her in a distressed state.
- Even though I had many chances to interview her, I did not do what a news reporter is supposed to do.
- I thought they were done when men and women with cameras and notebooks started coming in one at a time to interview me for the local papers.
- The clever woman identified herself as a Washington reporter seeking to interview me but then embarked on a filthy tirade.
- She has also complained to the PCC that the reporter used subterfuge to interview her, pretending to be the mother of an inmate.
- The guy came and they interviewed me from the top of Bolton Town Hall.
- A Sukhum paper sent a reporter to interview him.
- Once a television crew arrived to interview me, and I could see the shock in their eyes as they tried to figure out where to place the camera.
- When reporters interview me about press controversies, I'm frank to the point of self-destruction.
- Yes, but if you read more than just the cover of the books of the people that you interview you would know more about the book.
- We even got some calls on the answering machine from some reporters who wanted to interview me.
Synonyms
talk to, have a discussion with, have a dialogue with, hold a meeting with, confer with
question, put questions to, probe, interrogate, cross-examine
poll, canvass, survey, sound out, ascertain the opinions of
informal grill, pump, give the third degree to
Law examine
1. 1.1no object, with adverbial Perform (well or badly) at an interview.
  Example sentencesExamples
  They interview well and everything, and then when they come to writing, it is like, and duh…
  If he interviews well with prospective teams and shows a penchant for receiving out of the backfield, he'll go high in the draft.
  He had the grades and the references from his school, and according to his teachers he would interview well.
  You should consider attending an information session if you plan to interview well.

Origin

Early 16th century (formerly also as enterview): from French entrevue, from s'entrevoir 'see each other', from voir 'to see', on the pattern of vue 'a view'.

Definition of interview in US English:

interview

nounˈɪn(t)ərˌvjuˈin(t)ərˌvyo͞o

1A meeting of people face to face, especially for consultation.
Example sentencesExamples
- Neither the preliminary interview nor the consultation seemed to define what patients actually worried about.
- Some 45% of asylum seekers do not turn up for official meetings or interviews with State authorities.
- It is also possible to assess quality without quantitative measures, by using approaches such as peer review, videoing consultations, and patient interviews.
- I couldn't go, I had interviews and meetings, but was jealous of those who did, as I've never been surfing in my life.
- Host periodic meetings or interviews with team members in order to gather feedback on what's working and what's not.
- In line with the interviews, respondents rated consultation space with the physician as most important.
- Qualitative methods, specifically interviews and focus group meetings, were used.
- The subsequent interviews and meetings followed accepted methods of qualitative research, and we believe the results to be an accurate reflection of the participants' views.
- The consultants conducted face-to-face interviews with children and organised focus groups.
- In time, however, phone calls, meetings and interviews confirmed his authenticity.
- I had to attend a visa interview at the US consulate there.
- By grounding interviews in recent consultation, we sought to minimise generalised or idealised accounts.
- Questionnaires, snapshot surveys, focus groups, interviews, consultation meetings and postal consultation have been used to build the review.
- Main outcome measures: Participants' views and commonly observed responses during consultations and interviews.
- Due diligence, company interviews and developer meetings will require travel.
- Comparisons between transcripts of consultations and subsequent interviews indicated that most patients were able to recall some or most of the information given to them.
- I had invited a few friends of mine, along with two officials I had the pleasure of meeting through some work-related interviews, to dinner at my place.
- I tried having meetings, disciplinary interviews and discussing issues, but they still do nothing.
- Most research on patients' agendas has focused either on the consultation or on interviews with either doctors or patients
Synonyms
meeting, discussion, conference, question and answer session, examination, evaluation, interrogation
1. 1.1 A conversation between a journalist or radio or television presenter and a person of public interest, used as the basis of a broadcast or publication.
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is based on a true story, framed by an investigative journalist's interview with his elusive subject and told mostly in flashback.
  A third has more than 250 interviews from radio, television, newspapers, and scholarly journals.
  His staff is expected to complain about a heated interview with him broadcast on Scottish Television.
  Magazine articles, radio interviews and some television appearances have happened for me, so I feel good about that, too.
  After my exclusive interview with the pigs' owner, every journalist was after him.
  I remember a television interview with him early in his career, at the Belgian Grand Prix.
  Councillors gained invaluable tips on how best they should approach radio and television interviews and build up good relationships with journalists.
  I spoke to the Spanish wire service and that led to an interview with a Mexican radio station, which was quite interesting.
  In an interview with a television news reporter, the minister said some farmers were still mistreating their workers.
  Also, I did an interview with a journalist from a woman's magazine yesterday, about parent bloggers.
  The documentary features exclusive interviews as well as radio and television footage from the time.
  Iranian television news carried an interview with a woman who had lost uncles and aunts and her two children, while her husband had suffered a broken back and legs.
  As the president battles back on the war in Iraq with a series of television interviews, are journalists giving him a fair hearing?
  She spent Monday morning doing television and radio interviews and followed that up with an afternoon of newspaper press conferences.
  This is why presidents give interviews to television journalists.
  Jorge himself began making appearances in schools and on public radio and gave interviews to newspapers and magazines.
  In four weeks he did 18 television interviews and 36 radio broadcasts alone.
  His critics in the party also shunned his long-time penchant for rushing to Dublin for radio and television interviews with RTE.
  In an interview with Cable Television, Lee said the proposal will only deter future democratic development in Hong Kong.
  He also gave an interview with a Dutch radio station, the web audio transcript of which a Dutch friend kindly located for me.
2. 1.2 An oral examination of an applicant for a job, college admission, etc.
  I am pleased to advise you that you have been selected for an interview
  Example sentencesExamples
  Every year the school spots children disillusioned with traditional study and through college and school interviews identifies those who would thrive doing more work-based learning.
  Each of us can articulate a kind of formal Australian that we might use at work, for meetings, job interviews and the like.
  After four auditions, an interview and written examination Joseph was accepted into the course of music performance.
  He is now seeking admission to a post-graduate course in Social Work and has already faced an interview at Loyola College.
  According to the election regulation, the council's 11 factions would select the candidates through interviews.
  The former Wimbledon College pupil, of Donnington Road, had been due to attend an interview at Carshalton College to train as a motor mechanic when he died.
  During the interview, analyse applicants' skills and compare them with the job requirements to make a short list.
  Health bosses travelled to Madrid last month for a first wave of interviews with 14 applicants.
  Candidates were due to arrive in Bradford tonight for the two-day selection process, but yesterday the council announced it was calling off the interviews after three applicants had pulled out.
  He is also taking his campaign to Britain and interviews with applicants from both countries will take place in London early next year.
  Now the sub-committee must sit down this week and examine the applications and will conduct interviews with the six men.
  Perhaps not surprisingly, the researchers found that employers were considerably more likely to offer interviews and jobs to applicants with white names.
  Though this is not possible under all circumstances, this is relevant when you are going for an interview for a college admission.
  The 17 year old's application to study medicine was rejected after an interview at Magdalen College, Oxford.
  College officials feared about a dozen students had lost work that they needed for pre-entry interviews at other colleges.
  The lucky few were selected after three rounds of examinations and interviews.
  Furthermore, a consular official must interview applicants unless the interview is waived.
  Three potential students have already been invited for an interview at the college next week.
  She was selected from 3,000 applicants after two interviews to attend the 1950s-style boarding school.
  Candidates are selected by in-person interviews only.

verbˈɪn(t)ərˌvjuˈin(t)ərˌvyo͞o

[with object]

1Hold an interview with (someone)
he arrived to be interviewed by a local TV station about the level of unemployment
Example sentencesExamples
- Reporters all stormed forward trying to interview her.
- The guy came and they interviewed me from the top of Bolton Town Hall.
- He interviewed me and reported in the government paper what I said about gay and lesbian rights quite accurately.
- The clever woman identified herself as a Washington reporter seeking to interview me but then embarked on a filthy tirade.
- People want you in their films, and people want to interview you.
- Even though I had many chances to interview her, I did not do what a news reporter is supposed to do.
- I thought they were done when men and women with cameras and notebooks started coming in one at a time to interview me for the local papers.
- She has also complained to the PCC that the reporter used subterfuge to interview her, pretending to be the mother of an inmate.
- I've also asked reporters to interview me, sometimes first sketching a hypothetical scenario.
- Yes, but if you read more than just the cover of the books of the people that you interview you would know more about the book.
- One day, a magazine editor called Young and asked if he could send a reporter to interview him on his successful record.
- We even got some calls on the answering machine from some reporters who wanted to interview me.
- Once a television crew arrived to interview me, and I could see the shock in their eyes as they tried to figure out where to place the camera.
- A Sukhum paper sent a reporter to interview him.
- When reporters interview me about press controversies, I'm frank to the point of self-destruction.
- He is deaf too, reporters are going mad interviewing him because they have to learn sign languages.
- One afternoon in the early Seventies I arrived to interview him at his house in the country.
- When reporters went to interview her about the campaign they found her in a distressed state.
- I was the first person that got to interview her after her fall.
- He started in unblushing manner, giving a parking ticket to the Press reporter who had gone to interview him.
Synonyms
talk to, have a discussion with, have a dialogue with, hold a meeting with, confer with
1. 1.1 Question (someone) to discover their opinions or experience.
  all the customers interviewed were pleased to be getting a new bathroom
  Example sentencesExamples
  Participants who had been interviewed were asked how well the themes represented their stories.
  Most members of the public interviewed by the Keighley News agreed that stores should not be allowed to trade on December 25.
  Despite the possible inconveniences, members of the public interviewed on the street supported the measures.
  Each of the participants was interviewed about his early interpersonal experiences.
  Attendees will be informally interviewed for their opinions and concerns regarding waste management.
  A structured questionnaire was administered to adolescents who agreed to be interviewed.
2. 1.2 Orally examine (an applicant for a job, college admission, etc.)
  he came to be interviewed for a top job
  no object I was interviewing all last week
  Example sentencesExamples
  When he appeared I explained that I had filled out an application for the job and wanted to be interviewed.
  The college had interviewed one of them, from Shanghai, and accepted his application.
  Some applicants were interviewed by a panel of two officers, in which case the ratings were averaged.
  An investigation was carried out by the police and the Applicant was interviewed by them on 3rd June 1998.
  Applicants will be interviewed by hospital trust chiefs and their language skills assessed.
  Applicants are interviewed by agency staff, and the videos shown to prospective employers/agencies.
  It seems that after several thousand applicants were interviewed, the choice was narrowed down to two men and a woman.
  The applicant was interviewed and made a statement regarding his whereabouts at an early stage.
  The applicants must be interviewed by me in person, and then I will make the hiring decision.
  All these new posts have to be advertised, and applicants interviewed, for which an interview panel is needed.
  The applicants were then interviewed and tested for suitability and contestants selected.
  If so, the applicant will be interviewed by the facility's manager or a hiring designee.
3. 1.3no object, with adverbial Perform (well or badly) at an interview.
  Example sentencesExamples
  If he interviews well with prospective teams and shows a penchant for receiving out of the backfield, he'll go high in the draft.
  They interview well and everything, and then when they come to writing, it is like, and duh…
  You should consider attending an information session if you plan to interview well.
  He had the grades and the references from his school, and according to his teachers he would interview well.

Origin

Early 16th century (formerly also as enterview): from French entrevue, from s'entrevoir ‘see each other’, from voir ‘to see’, on the pattern of vue ‘a view’.

单词	interview
释义	Definition of interview in English: interview noun ˈɪntəvjuːˈɪn(t)ərˌvju 1A meeting of people face to face, especially for consultation. Example sentencesExamples Neither the preliminary interview nor the consultation seemed to define what patients actually worried about. In time, however, phone calls, meetings and interviews confirmed his authenticity. It is also possible to assess quality without quantitative measures, by using approaches such as peer review, videoing consultations, and patient interviews. I couldn't go, I had interviews and meetings, but was jealous of those who did, as I've never been surfing in my life. Host periodic meetings or interviews with team members in order to gather feedback on what's working and what's not. The subsequent interviews and meetings followed accepted methods of qualitative research, and we believe the results to be an accurate reflection of the participants' views. Questionnaires, snapshot surveys, focus groups, interviews, consultation meetings and postal consultation have been used to build the review. Qualitative methods, specifically interviews and focus group meetings, were used. I tried having meetings, disciplinary interviews and discussing issues, but they still do nothing. Main outcome measures: Participants' views and commonly observed responses during consultations and interviews. The consultants conducted face-to-face interviews with children and organised focus groups. Due diligence, company interviews and developer meetings will require travel. Some 45% of asylum seekers do not turn up for official meetings or interviews with State authorities. By grounding interviews in recent consultation, we sought to minimise generalised or idealised accounts. In line with the interviews, respondents rated consultation space with the physician as most important. I had invited a few friends of mine, along with two officials I had the pleasure of meeting through some work-related interviews, to dinner at my place. Comparisons between transcripts of consultations and subsequent interviews indicated that most patients were able to recall some or most of the information given to them. Most research on patients' agendas has focused either on the consultation or on interviews with either doctors or patients I had to attend a visa interview at the US consulate there. Synonyms meeting, discussion, conference, question and answer session, examination, evaluation, interrogation audience, talk, dialogue, exchange talks informal rap session, confab formal confabulation, interlocution 1.1 A conversation between a journalist or radio or television presenter and a person of public interest, used as the basis of a broadcast or publication. a half-hour interview with the prime minister Example sentencesExamples In an interview with a television news reporter, the minister said some farmers were still mistreating their workers. She spent Monday morning doing television and radio interviews and followed that up with an afternoon of newspaper press conferences. Also, I did an interview with a journalist from a woman's magazine yesterday, about parent bloggers. Councillors gained invaluable tips on how best they should approach radio and television interviews and build up good relationships with journalists. Jorge himself began making appearances in schools and on public radio and gave interviews to newspapers and magazines. His staff is expected to complain about a heated interview with him broadcast on Scottish Television. He also gave an interview with a Dutch radio station, the web audio transcript of which a Dutch friend kindly located for me. Magazine articles, radio interviews and some television appearances have happened for me, so I feel good about that, too. I remember a television interview with him early in his career, at the Belgian Grand Prix. It is based on a true story, framed by an investigative journalist's interview with his elusive subject and told mostly in flashback. As the president battles back on the war in Iraq with a series of television interviews, are journalists giving him a fair hearing? After my exclusive interview with the pigs' owner, every journalist was after him. A third has more than 250 interviews from radio, television, newspapers, and scholarly journals. In four weeks he did 18 television interviews and 36 radio broadcasts alone. Iranian television news carried an interview with a woman who had lost uncles and aunts and her two children, while her husband had suffered a broken back and legs. His critics in the party also shunned his long-time penchant for rushing to Dublin for radio and television interviews with RTE. In an interview with Cable Television, Lee said the proposal will only deter future democratic development in Hong Kong. The documentary features exclusive interviews as well as radio and television footage from the time. I spoke to the Spanish wire service and that led to an interview with a Mexican radio station, which was quite interesting. This is why presidents give interviews to television journalists. 1.2 An oral examination of an applicant for a job, college place, etc. I am pleased to advise you that you have been selected for interview Example sentencesExamples Though this is not possible under all circumstances, this is relevant when you are going for an interview for a college admission. College officials feared about a dozen students had lost work that they needed for pre-entry interviews at other colleges. The former Wimbledon College pupil, of Donnington Road, had been due to attend an interview at Carshalton College to train as a motor mechanic when he died. The 17 year old's application to study medicine was rejected after an interview at Magdalen College, Oxford. Furthermore, a consular official must interview applicants unless the interview is waived. Candidates were due to arrive in Bradford tonight for the two-day selection process, but yesterday the council announced it was calling off the interviews after three applicants had pulled out. He is now seeking admission to a post-graduate course in Social Work and has already faced an interview at Loyola College. Every year the school spots children disillusioned with traditional study and through college and school interviews identifies those who would thrive doing more work-based learning. During the interview, analyse applicants' skills and compare them with the job requirements to make a short list. Perhaps not surprisingly, the researchers found that employers were considerably more likely to offer interviews and jobs to applicants with white names. She was selected from 3,000 applicants after two interviews to attend the 1950s-style boarding school. Candidates are selected by in-person interviews only. After four auditions, an interview and written examination Joseph was accepted into the course of music performance. Three potential students have already been invited for an interview at the college next week. Now the sub-committee must sit down this week and examine the applications and will conduct interviews with the six men. Health bosses travelled to Madrid last month for a first wave of interviews with 14 applicants. According to the election regulation, the council's 11 factions would select the candidates through interviews. Each of us can articulate a kind of formal Australian that we might use at work, for meetings, job interviews and the like. The lucky few were selected after three rounds of examinations and interviews. He is also taking his campaign to Britain and interviews with applicants from both countries will take place in London early next year. 1.3 A session of formal questioning of a person by the police. Example sentencesExamples The evidence in chief of the complainant was given at trial in the form of a video of her interview in the police station. Despite being held for hours by police, his official interview ceased after only two questions when he refused to answer. I was in conversation with the respondent about his views on the tape-recording of formal interviews at the police station. After a few tense moments, officers relieved him of the weapon and ammunition and escorted him to the Soi 9 police station for an interview. For the first time, pictures taken during police interviews show Britain's worst serial killer refusing to look at photographs of victims and claiming another elderly patient was a drug addict. The conclusion of the prosecution case were interviews that the police had had with the Appellant. Particularly in view of the attitude that the appellant adopted during his interviews with the police, he is only entitled to a modest discount for his plea. During a series of frank interviews at Alton police station, he admitted he had pushed a young Asian man he had seen apparently laughing at him near a lamp-post. The jury could accept the admissions made by the appellant in the course of the interview with police officers. Those who broke the law in the recent stings are undergoing formal interviews and police are considering whether to prosecute. He said that during four interviews with detectives, police had produced no evidence of that he was involved in the break-in. He failed to recall these details and the entire Blackpool trip in police interviews in 1997. Highly questionable police interviews of the suspect were conducted. The man was due to spend a second night at Scunthorpe Police Station, with interviews again today. The tape of the police interview of the appellant was to be transcribed, agreed, filed and served. It regards a course of official questioning by a police officer as an interview. During the interview, the police officer left the room leaving the door unlocked. Firstly, she gave a very full account in long interviews with experienced police officers. However the tapes of all the police interviews were subsequently produced to counsel and were made exhibits in this trial. The police interview of the first defendant took place only in January 2002. verb ˈɪntəvjuːˈɪn(t)ərˌvju [with object] 1Hold an interview with (someone) she was interviewed by a reporter from the Daily News police are keen to interview two men seen nearby Example sentencesExamples He is deaf too, reporters are going mad interviewing him because they have to learn sign languages. He started in unblushing manner, giving a parking ticket to the Press reporter who had gone to interview him. People want you in their films, and people want to interview you. He interviewed me and reported in the government paper what I said about gay and lesbian rights quite accurately. I've also asked reporters to interview me, sometimes first sketching a hypothetical scenario. Reporters all stormed forward trying to interview her. One afternoon in the early Seventies I arrived to interview him at his house in the country. I was the first person that got to interview her after her fall. One day, a magazine editor called Young and asked if he could send a reporter to interview him on his successful record. When reporters went to interview her about the campaign they found her in a distressed state. Even though I had many chances to interview her, I did not do what a news reporter is supposed to do. I thought they were done when men and women with cameras and notebooks started coming in one at a time to interview me for the local papers. The clever woman identified herself as a Washington reporter seeking to interview me but then embarked on a filthy tirade. She has also complained to the PCC that the reporter used subterfuge to interview her, pretending to be the mother of an inmate. The guy came and they interviewed me from the top of Bolton Town Hall. A Sukhum paper sent a reporter to interview him. Once a television crew arrived to interview me, and I could see the shock in their eyes as they tried to figure out where to place the camera. When reporters interview me about press controversies, I'm frank to the point of self-destruction. Yes, but if you read more than just the cover of the books of the people that you interview you would know more about the book. We even got some calls on the answering machine from some reporters who wanted to interview me. Synonyms talk to, have a discussion with, have a dialogue with, hold a meeting with, confer with question, put questions to, probe, interrogate, cross-examine poll, canvass, survey, sound out, ascertain the opinions of informal grill, pump, give the third degree to Law examine 1.1no object, with adverbial Perform (well or badly) at an interview. Example sentencesExamples They interview well and everything, and then when they come to writing, it is like, and duh… If he interviews well with prospective teams and shows a penchant for receiving out of the backfield, he'll go high in the draft. He had the grades and the references from his school, and according to his teachers he would interview well. You should consider attending an information session if you plan to interview well. Origin Early 16th century (formerly also as enterview): from French entrevue, from s'entrevoir 'see each other', from voir 'to see', on the pattern of vue 'a view'. Definition of interview in US English: interview nounˈɪn(t)ərˌvjuˈin(t)ərˌvyo͞o 1A meeting of people face to face, especially for consultation. Example sentencesExamples Neither the preliminary interview nor the consultation seemed to define what patients actually worried about. Some 45% of asylum seekers do not turn up for official meetings or interviews with State authorities. It is also possible to assess quality without quantitative measures, by using approaches such as peer review, videoing consultations, and patient interviews. I couldn't go, I had interviews and meetings, but was jealous of those who did, as I've never been surfing in my life. Host periodic meetings or interviews with team members in order to gather feedback on what's working and what's not. In line with the interviews, respondents rated consultation space with the physician as most important. Qualitative methods, specifically interviews and focus group meetings, were used. The subsequent interviews and meetings followed accepted methods of qualitative research, and we believe the results to be an accurate reflection of the participants' views. The consultants conducted face-to-face interviews with children and organised focus groups. In time, however, phone calls, meetings and interviews confirmed his authenticity. I had to attend a visa interview at the US consulate there. By grounding interviews in recent consultation, we sought to minimise generalised or idealised accounts. Questionnaires, snapshot surveys, focus groups, interviews, consultation meetings and postal consultation have been used to build the review. Main outcome measures: Participants' views and commonly observed responses during consultations and interviews. Due diligence, company interviews and developer meetings will require travel. Comparisons between transcripts of consultations and subsequent interviews indicated that most patients were able to recall some or most of the information given to them. I had invited a few friends of mine, along with two officials I had the pleasure of meeting through some work-related interviews, to dinner at my place. I tried having meetings, disciplinary interviews and discussing issues, but they still do nothing. Most research on patients' agendas has focused either on the consultation or on interviews with either doctors or patients Synonyms meeting, discussion, conference, question and answer session, examination, evaluation, interrogation 1.1 A conversation between a journalist or radio or television presenter and a person of public interest, used as the basis of a broadcast or publication. Example sentencesExamples It is based on a true story, framed by an investigative journalist's interview with his elusive subject and told mostly in flashback. A third has more than 250 interviews from radio, television, newspapers, and scholarly journals. His staff is expected to complain about a heated interview with him broadcast on Scottish Television. Magazine articles, radio interviews and some television appearances have happened for me, so I feel good about that, too. After my exclusive interview with the pigs' owner, every journalist was after him. I remember a television interview with him early in his career, at the Belgian Grand Prix. Councillors gained invaluable tips on how best they should approach radio and television interviews and build up good relationships with journalists. I spoke to the Spanish wire service and that led to an interview with a Mexican radio station, which was quite interesting. In an interview with a television news reporter, the minister said some farmers were still mistreating their workers. Also, I did an interview with a journalist from a woman's magazine yesterday, about parent bloggers. The documentary features exclusive interviews as well as radio and television footage from the time. Iranian television news carried an interview with a woman who had lost uncles and aunts and her two children, while her husband had suffered a broken back and legs. As the president battles back on the war in Iraq with a series of television interviews, are journalists giving him a fair hearing? She spent Monday morning doing television and radio interviews and followed that up with an afternoon of newspaper press conferences. This is why presidents give interviews to television journalists. Jorge himself began making appearances in schools and on public radio and gave interviews to newspapers and magazines. In four weeks he did 18 television interviews and 36 radio broadcasts alone. His critics in the party also shunned his long-time penchant for rushing to Dublin for radio and television interviews with RTE. In an interview with Cable Television, Lee said the proposal will only deter future democratic development in Hong Kong. He also gave an interview with a Dutch radio station, the web audio transcript of which a Dutch friend kindly located for me. 1.2 An oral examination of an applicant for a job, college admission, etc. I am pleased to advise you that you have been selected for an interview Example sentencesExamples Every year the school spots children disillusioned with traditional study and through college and school interviews identifies those who would thrive doing more work-based learning. Each of us can articulate a kind of formal Australian that we might use at work, for meetings, job interviews and the like. After four auditions, an interview and written examination Joseph was accepted into the course of music performance. He is now seeking admission to a post-graduate course in Social Work and has already faced an interview at Loyola College. According to the election regulation, the council's 11 factions would select the candidates through interviews. The former Wimbledon College pupil, of Donnington Road, had been due to attend an interview at Carshalton College to train as a motor mechanic when he died. During the interview, analyse applicants' skills and compare them with the job requirements to make a short list. Health bosses travelled to Madrid last month for a first wave of interviews with 14 applicants. Candidates were due to arrive in Bradford tonight for the two-day selection process, but yesterday the council announced it was calling off the interviews after three applicants had pulled out. He is also taking his campaign to Britain and interviews with applicants from both countries will take place in London early next year. Now the sub-committee must sit down this week and examine the applications and will conduct interviews with the six men. Perhaps not surprisingly, the researchers found that employers were considerably more likely to offer interviews and jobs to applicants with white names. Though this is not possible under all circumstances, this is relevant when you are going for an interview for a college admission. The 17 year old's application to study medicine was rejected after an interview at Magdalen College, Oxford. College officials feared about a dozen students had lost work that they needed for pre-entry interviews at other colleges. The lucky few were selected after three rounds of examinations and interviews. Furthermore, a consular official must interview applicants unless the interview is waived. Three potential students have already been invited for an interview at the college next week. She was selected from 3,000 applicants after two interviews to attend the 1950s-style boarding school. Candidates are selected by in-person interviews only. verbˈɪn(t)ərˌvjuˈin(t)ərˌvyo͞o [with object] 1Hold an interview with (someone) he arrived to be interviewed by a local TV station about the level of unemployment Example sentencesExamples Reporters all stormed forward trying to interview her. The guy came and they interviewed me from the top of Bolton Town Hall. He interviewed me and reported in the government paper what I said about gay and lesbian rights quite accurately. The clever woman identified herself as a Washington reporter seeking to interview me but then embarked on a filthy tirade. People want you in their films, and people want to interview you. Even though I had many chances to interview her, I did not do what a news reporter is supposed to do. I thought they were done when men and women with cameras and notebooks started coming in one at a time to interview me for the local papers. She has also complained to the PCC that the reporter used subterfuge to interview her, pretending to be the mother of an inmate. I've also asked reporters to interview me, sometimes first sketching a hypothetical scenario. Yes, but if you read more than just the cover of the books of the people that you interview you would know more about the book. One day, a magazine editor called Young and asked if he could send a reporter to interview him on his successful record. We even got some calls on the answering machine from some reporters who wanted to interview me. Once a television crew arrived to interview me, and I could see the shock in their eyes as they tried to figure out where to place the camera. A Sukhum paper sent a reporter to interview him. When reporters interview me about press controversies, I'm frank to the point of self-destruction. He is deaf too, reporters are going mad interviewing him because they have to learn sign languages. One afternoon in the early Seventies I arrived to interview him at his house in the country. When reporters went to interview her about the campaign they found her in a distressed state. I was the first person that got to interview her after her fall. He started in unblushing manner, giving a parking ticket to the Press reporter who had gone to interview him. Synonyms talk to, have a discussion with, have a dialogue with, hold a meeting with, confer with 1.1 Question (someone) to discover their opinions or experience. all the customers interviewed were pleased to be getting a new bathroom Example sentencesExamples Participants who had been interviewed were asked how well the themes represented their stories. Most members of the public interviewed by the Keighley News agreed that stores should not be allowed to trade on December 25. Despite the possible inconveniences, members of the public interviewed on the street supported the measures. Each of the participants was interviewed about his early interpersonal experiences. Attendees will be informally interviewed for their opinions and concerns regarding waste management. A structured questionnaire was administered to adolescents who agreed to be interviewed. 1.2 Orally examine (an applicant for a job, college admission, etc.) he came to be interviewed for a top job no object I was interviewing all last week Example sentencesExamples When he appeared I explained that I had filled out an application for the job and wanted to be interviewed. The college had interviewed one of them, from Shanghai, and accepted his application. Some applicants were interviewed by a panel of two officers, in which case the ratings were averaged. An investigation was carried out by the police and the Applicant was interviewed by them on 3rd June 1998. Applicants will be interviewed by hospital trust chiefs and their language skills assessed. Applicants are interviewed by agency staff, and the videos shown to prospective employers/agencies. It seems that after several thousand applicants were interviewed, the choice was narrowed down to two men and a woman. The applicant was interviewed and made a statement regarding his whereabouts at an early stage. The applicants must be interviewed by me in person, and then I will make the hiring decision. All these new posts have to be advertised, and applicants interviewed, for which an interview panel is needed. The applicants were then interviewed and tested for suitability and contestants selected. If so, the applicant will be interviewed by the facility's manager or a hiring designee. 1.3no object, with adverbial Perform (well or badly) at an interview. Example sentencesExamples If he interviews well with prospective teams and shows a penchant for receiving out of the backfield, he'll go high in the draft. They interview well and everything, and then when they come to writing, it is like, and duh… You should consider attending an information session if you plan to interview well. He had the grades and the references from his school, and according to his teachers he would interview well. Origin Early 16th century (formerly also as enterview): from French entrevue, from s'entrevoir ‘see each other’, from voir ‘to see’, on the pattern of vue ‘a view’.
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