intervention
See also: Intervention
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle French intervention, from Latin interventiō.
Morphologically intervene + -tion.
Pronunciation
edit- (General American) IPA(key): /ɪntɚˈvɛnʃən/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪntəˈvɛnʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛnʃən
- Hyphenation: in‧ter‧ven‧tion
Noun
editintervention (countable and uncountable, plural interventions)
- The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
- 2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- 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.
- (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.
- An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.
- (medicine) An action taken or procedure performed; an operation.
Derived terms
editWith prefixes
With suffixes
Compound words and expressions
Translations
editact of intervening
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medical procedure
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Anagrams
editDanish
editEtymology
editFrom Latin interventiō, from interveniō (“I intervene, come between”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editintervention c (singular definite interventionen, plural indefinite interventioner)
- (law) intervention
- Synonyms: indblanding, indgriben
Inflection
editDeclension of intervention
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | intervention | interventionen | interventioner | interventionerne |
genitive | interventions | interventionens | interventioners | interventionernes |
Finnish
editNoun
editintervention
French
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin interventiōnem.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editintervention f (plural interventions)
Further reading
edit- “intervention”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Interlingua
editNoun
editintervention (plural interventiones)
Swedish
editNoun
editintervention c
- (law) intervention
- Synonyms: ingripande, inblandning
Declension
editDeclension of intervention | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | intervention | interventionen | interventioner | interventionerna |
Genitive | interventions | interventionens | interventioners | interventionernas |
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