interviews

Noun

interview (plural interviews)

1. (obsolete) An official face-to-face meeting of monarchs or other important figures.
   • To be present at an interview, as that famous of Henry the Eighth and Francis the First, so much renowned all over Europe[…], no age ever saw the like.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II...

   Synonyms:

   audience

2. Any face-to-face meeting, especially of an official or adversarial nature.
   • (Aaron Burr narrating): It was at about this time that I learned exactly what it was that Hamilton had said of me, and knew that this world was far too narrow a place to contain the two of us. Hamilton's friend made one further attempt to get him off the hook but only further impaled the slanderer...1973, Gore Vidal, Burr, chapter 28
3. A conversation in person (or, by extension, over the telephone, Internet etc.) between a journalist and someone whose opinion or statements he or she wishes to record for publication, broadcast etc.
   • The reporter gave the witness an interview.
4. A formal meeting, in person, for the assessment of a candidate or applicant.
   • It was a dreadful interview; I have no hope of getting the job.
5. An audition.
6. A police interrogation of a suspect or party in an investigation.

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