mardi 6 mai 2014

Notes on usage: Interview

Interrogation - Audience - Consultation

 

These are all words for a meeting or occasion when sb is asked for information, opinions or advice.

 

Interview a formal meeting at which sb is asked questions, for example, to see if they are suitable for a particular job or course of study, or in order to find out their opinions about sth: A job interview.
Interrogation the process of asking sb a lot of questions, especially in an aggressive way, in order to get information; an occasion on which this is done: He confessed after four days under interrogation.
Audience a formal meeting with an important person: The Pope granted her a private audience.
Consultation a meeting with an expert, especially a doctor, to get advice or treatment.

 

PATTERNS
*an in-depth interview/consultation
*a police interview/interrogation
*to have/request a(n) interview/audience/consultation with sb
*to give/grant sb a(n) interview/audience/consultation
*to carry out/conduct an interview/interrogation

 

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