preliminary interview

collocation in English

meaningsofpreliminaryandinterview

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preliminary
adjective[before noun]
uk
/prɪˈlɪm.ɪ.nər.i/us
/prɪˈlɪm.ə.ner.i/
coming before a more important action or event, especially introducing or preparing ...
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interview
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɪn.tə.vjuː/us
/ˈɪn.t̬ɚ.vjuː/
a meeting in which someone asks you questions to see if you are suitable for a job ...
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(Definition ofpreliminaryandinterviewfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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How on earth do we reach the other 80 per cent unless we can bring them within the corral of apreliminaryinterview?
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Many employers conduct theirpreliminaryinterviewprocess at the meeting.
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The attitude of the interrogators at thepreliminaryinterviewshould usually be correct, studiously polite, and in some cases even sympathetic.
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The wide geographical distribution of cases and preliminary interviews with patients suggested drinking water as the source of the outbreak.
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There will be no preliminary interviews for third and fourth year children.
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The board agreed a long list of candidates for preliminary interviews by external recruitment consultants and, subsequently, a short list for final interviews, conducted by the board.
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In preliminary interviews, participants are asked about events, and then, in later interviews, participants are reminded of these events and then asked about additional occurrences.
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In the preliminary the contestants will go through swimsuits, evening gowns and preliminary interviews.
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These casting tapes are taken from preliminary interviews rather than the tapes that the houseguests sent in.
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One limitation of this process is that it requires information from preliminary interviews be correct.
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The team conducted 475 preliminary interviews and did two years of research before embarking on this 16 month journey.
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