Let’s talk about the word interview today.
Hare are the meanings with example sentences for nouns, verbs, the adjective and the most frequent collocations:
Interview: Noun
- a formal meeting in which one or more people ask questions, consult, or evaluate another person:
I had a job interview this morning.
2. a meeting or conversation in which a writer or reporter asks someone questions the answers to which are to be material for a newspaper story, television broadcast, etc.
In one of her most famous interviews Oprah Winfrey had an interview with Michelle Obama.
Interviewer: a person who interviews.
Interviewee: a person being interviewed.
Interview: verb
- used with an object: to question, consult or evaluate a person during an interview
I interviewed many candidates for this job and finally I found a perfect one. / Oprah Winfrey interviewed Michelle Obama during one of her most famous interviews.
2. used without an object: to have an interview, to be interviewed,
She interviewed with six different companies before she finally got a job.
Adjectives: interviewable:
We need to find an interviewable celebrity for the hook of our program.
Collocations with ‘interview:’
to interview + (Object):
people, celebrity, witness, guest, someone
Verb + interview:
to conduct, to have, to feature, to give, to include, to do, to grant, to obtain, to request, to seek,
Adjective + interview:
in-depth, personal, exclusive, recent, private, long, brief, live, extensive, long, lengthy,
Noun + interview:
elephant, video, feature, celebrity, press, television, job, magazine, newspaper, media,
Interview + Noun:
process, segment, program,
Verb + Prep + interview:
to confirm in, to say in, to base on, to explain in, to reveal in,
Noun + Prep + interview:
series of, a result of the, present at the, transcript of..,
Interview + Prep + Noun:
with magazine, with him with her, with member, with the king, with people, with The New York Times,