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interviewee

/ˌɪn.tə.vjuːˈiː/US/ˌɪn.tɚ.vjuːˈiː/

interviewee noun: someone being interviewed, i.e. the person answering the questions.

interviewee: A man in a suit and tie gesturing during a meeting in an office
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Noun

interviewee (plural interviewees)

  1. Someone being interviewed, i.e. the person answering the questions.
    • Both ‘no-op’ interviewees hold relatively stable identities as TG and offer interesting perspectives on trans repudiation from a TG standpoint.2008, Christopher Shelley, “Introduction: Transpeople and the Problem of Re/Action”, in Transpeople: Repudiation, Trauma, Healing, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 12
    • […] a willing American interviewee describes how he wants his girlfriend to "reach for my [bleep]^([sic]) faster while giving me road head."2015 February 26, Sophie Gilbert, “Soggy Bottoms and 'Sex Box': The Saucy State of TV's British Imports”, in The Atlantic

interviewee meaning in Tamil, Kannada and Indonesian

interviewee in Tamil

பேட்டி காணப்படுபவர்

interviewee in Kannada

ಸಂದರ್ಶನಾರ್ಥಿ, ಸಂದರ್ಶನಕ್ಕೆ ಒಳಗಾದವ

interviewee in Indonesian

Someone being interviewed
responden, terwawancara

Examples of interviewee in a sentence

  • The interviewee merely parroted the views of her tabloid.
  • Langella is an agile interviewee, taking the conversation toward anything but the specifics of his nonacting life.
  • Here was something my breakfast interviewee could sink his teeth into.

All 14 example sentences with interviewee

Forms of interviewee

pluralinterviewees

Plural of interviewee: interviewees

Origin of interviewee

From interview + -ee.

Words that rhyme with interviewee

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about interviewee

What does interviewee mean?
Interviewee means someone being interviewed, i.e. the person answering the questions.
What is interviewee in Tamil?
Interviewee in Tamil is பேட்டி காணப்படுபவர். See Interviewee meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is interviewee?
Interviewee is a noun.
How do you pronounce interviewee?
Interviewee is pronounced /ˌɪn.tə.vjuːˈiː/ (UK).
What is the plural of interviewee?
The plural of interviewee is interviewees.

Words near interviewee in the dictionary

  1. interview under caution
  2. interview-worthy
  3. interviewability
  4. interviewable
  5. interviewed
  6. interviewee
  7. interviewees
  8. interviewer
  9. intervieweress
  10. intervieweresses
  11. interviewers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: interviewee (page history and authors); interviewee (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); interviewee (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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