intervention en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- (US) audio
- /ɪntɚˈvɛnʃən/ (General-American)
- /ɪntəˈvɛnʃən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
From Middle French intervention, from Latin interventiō. Morphologically intervene + -tion.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
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.
2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport:
- (US, countable, uncountable) 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.
- (countable, uncountable) An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.
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(countable, uncountable) An action taken or procedure performed; an operation.
“It goes with my mantra of there is ‘no magic pill’ to prevent cognitive decline,” said Isaacson, who was not involved in the new study. “At my clinic, we check nutritional blood measures and personally tailor interventions, and in doing so we don’t tend to recommend multivitamins since we address the individual deficiencies.”
2023 May 24, Sandee LaMotte, “Can a daily multivitamin slow cognitive aging? Maybe”, in CNN: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.
1988, Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy, page 183:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| interventions | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
teleintervention (With prefixes) · postintervention (With prefixes) · non-intervention (With prefixes) · currency intervention (Compound words and expressions) · postvention (With prefixes) · crisis intervention (Compound words and expressions) · interventionism (With suffixes) · humanitarian intervention (Compound words and expressions) · cointervention (With prefixes) · immunointervention (With prefixes) · percutaneous coronary intervention (Compound words and expressions) · interventionistic (With suffixes) · neurointervention (With prefixes) · divine intervention (Compound words and expressions) · interventionable (With prefixes) · reintervention (With prefixes) · interventional → interventionally (With suffixes) · microintervention (With prefixes) · counterintervention (With prefixes) · nonintervention (With prefixes) · prointervention (With prefixes) · preintervention (With prefixes) · macrointervention (With prefixes)
Translations (104)
it intervento (act of intervening) · fo uppílegging (act of intervening) · ar تَطَفُّل (act of intervening) · be уварва́нне (act of intervening) · ur مُداخَلَت (act of intervening) · tg мудохила (act of intervening) · be інтэрвэ́нцыя (act of intervening) · sk zásah (act of intervening) · it intervento (medical procedure) · da indgreb (act of intervening) · es intervención (medical procedure) · ms campur tangan (act of intervening) · is inngrip (act of intervening) · hu beavatkozás (medical procedure) · nn medverknad (act of intervening) · el παρέμβαση (act of intervening) · fi interventio (act of intervening) · uz mudoxala (act of intervening) · la interventus (act of intervening) · ru вторже́ние (act of intervening) · da indgreb (medical procedure) · sv medverkan (act of intervening) · fa-ira دِخَالَت (act of intervening) · km អន្តរាគមន៍ (act of intervening) · de Intervention (act of intervening) · tr müdahale (act of intervening) · pl interwencja (act of intervening) · az qarışma (act of intervening) · tl interbensyon (act of intervening) · cmn 干涉 (act of intervening) · fo millumgonga (act of intervening) · ro intervenție (act of intervening) · fr intervention (medical procedure) · cmn 干預 (act of intervening) · gd eadar-theachd (act of intervening) · ca intervenció (act of intervening) · nl ingreep (medical procedure) · be уварва́ньне (act of intervening) · da mellemkomst (act of intervening) · nl tussenkomst (act of intervening) · hi हस्तक्षेप (act of intervening) · cs intervence (act of intervening) · tg дахолат (act of intervening) · fa-ira مُداخِلِه (act of intervening) · nn innblanding (act of intervening) · da indblandning (act of intervening) · id intervensi (medical procedure) · ko 개입 (act of intervening) · id campur tangan (act of intervening) · tl pamamagitan (act of intervening) · no intervensjon (act of intervening) · fi väliintulo (act of intervening) · nn inngrep (act of intervening) · de Eingriff (act of intervening) · hu beavatkozás (act of intervening) · sk intervencia (act of intervening) · nb medvirkning (act of intervening) · sv inblandning (act of intervening) · uk вто́ргнення (act of intervening) · hu intervenció (act of intervening) · uk інтерве́нція (act of intervening) · pt intervenção (act of intervening) · ms intervensi (act of intervening) · el επέμβαση (medical procedure) · be умяша́нне (act of intervening) · cs zásah (act of intervening) · uz aralashish (act of intervening) · ru вмеша́тельство (act of intervening) · ru интерве́нция (act of intervening) · io interveno (act of intervening) · tl pakikialam (act of intervening) · es intervención (act of intervening) · de Eingriff (medical procedure) · fr intervention (act of intervening) · mi wawaotanga (act of intervening) · da intervention (act of intervening) · bg вмешателство (act of intervening) · be умяша́ньне (act of intervening) · cmn 干預 (medical procedure) · nb inngrep (act of intervening) · sq ndërhyrje (act of intervening) · id ikut campur (act of intervening) · ml ഇടപെടൽ (act of intervening) · az müdaxilə (act of intervening) · uk втруча́ння (act of intervening) · da medvirken (act of intervening) · hu közbelépés (act of intervening) · bg интерве́нция (medical procedure) · ru вмеша́тельство (medical procedure) · fi toimenpide (medical procedure) · nb innblanding (act of intervening) · bg интервенция (act of intervening) · is íhlutun (act of intervening) · sv ingrepp (medical procedure) · ar تَدَخُّل (act of intervening) · bg намеса (act of intervening) · kk басқыншылық (act of intervening) · ja 介入 (act of intervening) · cmn 介入 (act of intervening) · hi मुदाख़लत (act of intervening) · sv ingripande (act of intervening) · lv iejaukšanās (act of intervening) · ru интерве́нция (medical procedure) · pt intervenção (medical procedure)