interview

To interview is to question someone to try to learn more about their background, life or experience. (verb)

An example of interview is when you are hiring someone for a job and you ask them about their professional background.
An example of interview is when you work as a journalist and you meet with a new movie star to find out all about her life.

An interview is a conversation in which someone is questioned about their background, lifestyle or experience. (noun)

An example of interview is what a celebrity does when he goes on The Tonight show.
An example of interview is what a job seeker attends when he meets with a perspective new boss to tell the boss about himself.

See interview in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a meeting of people face to face, as to evaluate or question a job applicant
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1. a meeting in which a person is asked about personal views, activities, etc., as by a newspaper reporter or a pollster
2. a published, taped, or filmed account of such a meeting

transitive verb

☆ to have an interview with

intransitive verb

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See interview in American Heritage Dictionary 4

(ĭnˈtər-vyo͞oˌ)

noun

A formal meeting in person, especially one arranged for the assessment of the qualifications of an applicant.
a. A conversation, such as one conducted by a reporter, in which facts or statements are elicited from another.
b. An account or a reproduction of such a conversation.
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).