INTERVIEWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does interviewer mean? 

• INTERVIEWER (noun)
  The noun INTERVIEWER has 1 sense:

1. a person who conducts an interview

  Familiarity information: INTERVIEWER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERVIEWER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who conducts an interview

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("interviewer" is a kind of...):

asker; enquirer; inquirer; querier; questioner (someone who asks a question)

Derivation:

interview (conduct an interview in television, newspaper, and radio reporting)

 Context examples 

PROs include outcomes recorded by interviewers transcribing the views expressed by the patient, but the term does not apply to outcomes recorded by observers who rely on their own judgment.

(Patient Self-Report, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A conversation with an individual regarding his or her background and other personal and professional details, opinions on specific subjects posed by the interviewer, etc.

(Interview, NCI Thesaurus)

Several points seem to make what the American interviewer calls "a story," if one could only get them in proper order.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Since its inception in 1957, the NHIS has been a continuing nationwide sample survey in which data are collected through personal interviews with household members by U.S. Bureau of the Census interviewers.

(National Health Interview Survey, NCI Thesaurus)