Interview

English Meaning

A mutual sight or view; a meeting face to face; usually, a formal or official meeting for consultation; a conference; as, the secretary had an interview with the President.

1. A formal meeting in person, especially one arranged for the assessment of the qualifications of an applicant.
2. A conversation, such as one conducted by a reporter, in which facts or statements are elicited from another.
3. An account or a reproduction of such a conversation.
4. Informal An interviewee: "I had been warned that [he] was a tough interview—that he doled out flip answers ... to questions he was tired of being asked” ( David Roberts).
5. To obtain an interview from.
6. To have an interview: interviewed with a publishing company.