intervention

English

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Noun

intervention (plural interventions)

1. The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
   • 2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, 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.

Derived terms

• interventionism
• divine intervention

Translations

act of intervening

Arabic: تدخل (ar) (tadákhkhul) m., تطفل (ar) (taTáfful) m. Catalan: intervenció (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 介入 (cmn) (jièrù) Danish: intervention (da) c. Dutch: tussenkomst (nl) f. Finnish: väliintulo (fi), interventio (fi) French: intervention (fr) German: Intervention (de) f.

Ido: interveno (io) Italian: intervento (it) Japanese: 介入 (ja) (かいにゅう, kainyū) Khmer: អន្តរាគមន៍ (km) (on tak ra kom) Norwegian: intervensjon (no) m. Portuguese: intervenção (pt) f. Russian: вмешательство (ru) (vmešátel'stvo) n., интервенция (ru) (intervéncija) f. (military) Spanish: intervención (es)

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Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /entərvənsjoːn/, [entˢɐvənˈɕoːˀn]

Noun

intervention c. (singular definite interventionen, plural indefinite interventioner)

1. intervention

Inflection

    Inflection of intervention

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	intervention	interventionen	interventioner	interventionerne
genitive	interventions	interventionens	interventioners	interventionernes

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Finnish

Noun

intervention

1. Genitive singular form of interventio.

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French

Noun

intervention f. (plural interventions)

1. intervention