interviewer

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
interview/ˈɪntəvjuː/

▶noun

• 1 a conversation between a journalist or broadcaster and a person of public interest.

• 2 an oral examination of an applicant for a job or college place.

  ■ a session of formal questioning of a person by the police.

▶verb hold an interview with.

– derivatives
interviewee noun,
interviewer noun.

– origin C16 (formerly also as enterview): from Fr. entrevue, from s'entrevoir ‘see each other’, from voir ‘to see’, on the pattern of vue ‘a view’.