INTERVIEWEE Synonyms: 20 Similar and Opposite Words

interviewee

noun

Definition of interviewee

as in respondent

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Recent Examples of interviewee Today’s Four Questions interviewee is GHSA associate director and football supervisor Jasper Jewell, who has been on the job since April. — Todd Holcomb, AJC.com, 27 Aug. 2026 Better make sure those interview questions are properly researched and up to snuff — or else there could be some real zingers flying in from the interviewee. — Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2026 To start with this question of dehumanization and rehumanization, one of the things that happens in the beginning of a psychoanalytic interview is that the interviewee, the patient, starts off expecting to be less than human. — Orna Guralnik, The New York Review of Books, 4 Aug. 2026 One interviewee for a junior product designer role left a lasting impression. — Aytekin Tank, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for interviewee

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respondent

Noun

Any survey respondent can volunteer for the advisory committee.

— Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 18 Aug. 2026
The options for the gender that the respondent currently identifies with that differs from that registered at birth are man, woman, nonbinary, prefer not to answer or another term that the respondent can provide.

— ABC News, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2026

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