interviewee

See also: interviewée

English

Etymology

From interview +‎ -ee.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɪn.tə.vjuːˈiː/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɪn.tɚ.vjuːˈiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

interviewee (plural interviewees)

1. Someone being interviewed, i.e. the person answering the questions.
   • 2008, Christopher Shelley, “Introduction: Transpeople and the Problem of Re/Action”, in Transpeople: Repudiation, Trauma, Healing, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 12:

     Both ‘no-op’ interviewees hold relatively stable identities as TG and offer interesting perspectives on trans repudiation from a TG standpoint.

   • 2015 February 26, Sophie Gilbert, “Soggy Bottoms and 'Sex Box': The Saucy State of TV's British Imports”, in The Atlantic‎:

     […] a willing American interviewee describes how he wants his girlfriend to "reach for my [bleep]^[sic] faster while giving me road head."

Translations

Someone being interviewed

Dutch: geïnterviewde (nl) c Finnish: haastateltava (fi), haastateltu (fi) Hungarian: interjúalany (hu), meginterjúvolt személy (hu) Icelandic: viðmælandi m Ido: interviuvato (io) Indonesian: responden (id), terwawancara (id) Italian: intervistato (it) m, intervistata (it) f Macedonian: испи́таник m (ispítanik), испита́ничка f (ispitánička), сого́ворник m (sogóvornik), согово́рничка f (sogovórnička) Manx: co-akinagh m Norwegian: intervjuobjekt n Polish: ankietowany (pl) m, ankietowana f, respondent (pl) m, respondentka f Portuguese: entrevistado (pt) m, entrevistada f Russian: интервьюи́руемый (ru) m (intervʹjuírujemyj), опра́шиваемый (ru) m (oprášivajemyj) Spanish: entrevistado (es) m, entrevistada (es) f Swedish: intervjuobjekt Ukrainian: інтерв'юво́ваний m (intervʺjuvóvanyj), інтерв'юво́вана f (intervʺjuvóvana) Volapük: (♂♀) bespikäb, (♂) hibespikäb, (♀) jibespikäb