intervention

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English

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Etymology

From Middle French intervention, from Latin interventiō.

Morphologically intervene +‎ -tion.

Pronunciation

Noun

intervention (countable and uncountable, plural interventions)

  1. The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
    • 2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport‎:
      Fernando Torres was recalled in place of the suspended Didier Drogba and he was only denied a goal in the opening seconds by Laurent Koscielny's intervention - a moment that set the tone for game filled with attacking quality and littered with errors.
  2. (US, law) A legal motion through which a person or entity who has not been named as a party to a case seeks to have the court order that they be made a party.
  3. An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.
  4. (medicine) An action taken or procedure performed; an operation.
    • 1988, Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy, page 183:
      As I showed, although some rhetoricians, such as Mesmer and Erb, claimed that their interventions were medical treatments, others, such as Freud and Jung, claimed that their interventions were both medical curings and spiritual carings.

Derived terms

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Translations

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

From Latin interventiō, from interveniō (“I intervene, come between”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /entərvənsjoːn/,

Noun

intervention c (singular definite interventionen, plural indefinite interventioner)

  1. (law) intervention
    Synonyms: indblanding, indgriben

Inflection

Declension of intervention
common
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative intervention interventionen interventioner interventionerne
genitive interventions interventionens interventioners interventionernes

Finnish

Noun

intervention

  1. genitive singular of interventio

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin interventiōnem.

Pronunciation

Noun

intervention f (plural interventions)

  1. intervention

Further reading

Interlingua

Noun

intervention (plural interventiones)

  1. intervention

Swedish

Noun

intervention c

  1. (law) intervention
    Synonyms: ingripande, inblandning

Declension

Declension of intervention
nominative genitive
singular indefinite intervention interventions
definite interventionen interventionens
plural indefinite interventioner interventioners
definite interventionerna interventionernas
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