interviewee

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See also: interviewée

English

Etymology

From interview +‎ -ee.

Pronunciation

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] faster while giving me road head."

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