interrogator
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6.8
- noun
- /ɪnˈtɛrəɡeɪtər/
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interrogador
- Let's try to move beyond the usual prisoner-interrogator banter, shall we?
- tell the interrogator
- a CIA interrogator
Put yourself, you are a professional interrogator, OK?
- Put yourself, you are a professional interrogator, OK?
- So FBI interrogators build careers on these kinds of tells.
- And The thing is, the interrogators often knew this guy hasn't done anything.
- Some people, as I say, they said too much speaking to interrogators.
- And at the end, you, you sit down with your main interrogator.
- And you know, this is like you hear sometimes how interrogators will get somebody in a interrogation room and hot box them.
- One of the things I do in trying to get to the truth, and I saw it happen with the interrogator with Chris Watts right before he confessed.
- The hardest sell to defeat, the hardest interrogator is a soft sell guy.
- And the third try hard energy is the interrogator.
- I squared up nose to nose with me interrogator, and his bodyguard never stepped in.
- My dad, my dad as an interrogator, never raised his voice, even as a dad.
- And I know cadets at West Point and my young interrogator have watched these, you know, with amusement and voyeurism and whatnot.
- When my husband was ready to tell me his story, I had to separate wife from the interrogator in me.
Examples
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After hours of questioning, the interrogator managed to extract important information from the witness.
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And can I just say that no good interrogator ever thinks of using torture?
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Put yourself, you are a professional interrogator, OK?
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My dad, my dad as an interrogator, never raised his voice, even as a dad.
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If you bring in the best interrogator the police ever had?
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And the infamous police interrogator.
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When the interrogator said that he could protect his... We already have his wife and children out of harm's way.
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The key to interrogation is establishing a bond between the interrogator and the subject, okay?
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Is it legal for interrogators to question a minor absent a parent?
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By common admission, CIA interrogators were some of the best and most professional in the intelligence business.
Academic text (2009)
Synonyms
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3.0
A person who asks questions to get information in a job or news interview
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3.2
A person who asks for information, often in a public meeting
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3.2
A person who asks questions to get information
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8.3
A person who questions a witness in court to find mistakes in what they said
A person who asks a witness many careful questions in court about earlier statements
Someone who asks very hard, aggressive questions during an interview
A private detective hired to find information for people or businesses
How Official
Surface Forms
Morphology
interrogator = interrogate (transparent) = interrogate + or
A regular agentive formation: the verb 'interrogate' plus the agentive suffix '-or' yields 'one who interrogates', easily inferable by learners.
Etymology
Interrogator comes from Latin parts inter- meaning 'between' and rogare meaning 'to ask', so the word originally suggested asking 'between' things or people. So an interrogator is someone who asks many questions, often in an official way, to get information.