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interview

/ˈɪn.(t)ɚ.vju/ noun A1
  1. Any face-to-face meeting, especially of an official or adversarial nature.
  2. 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.· He has a job interview on Saturday.
  3. 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.
  4. An audition.
  5. A police interrogation of a suspect or party in an investigation.

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It was a short interview, if there were any interview at all; for Mrs.
The Valley of Fear, p. 42 · C1
Then she briefly told him Anne’s history and the result of the interview with Mrs.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 60 · C1
Tell me, Friend MacDonald, this pleasing and touching interview was, I suppose, in the professor’s study?”
The Valley of Fear, p. 13 · C1
Morrel reddened, for his own conscience was not quite clear on politics; besides, what Dantès had told him of his interview with the grand-marshal, and what the emperor had said to him, embarrassed him.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 59 · C1

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