intervention

See also: Intervention

English

Etymology

From Middle French intervention, from Latin interventiō.

Morphologically intervene +‎ -tion.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪntɚˈvɛnʃən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪntəˈvɛnʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛnʃən
• Hyphenation: in‧ter‧ven‧tion

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^[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.

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

With prefixes

• cointervention
• macrointervention
• microintervention
• neurointervention
• nonintervention
• postintervention
• preintervention
• prointervention
• reintervention
• teleintervention

 

With suffixes

• interventional → interventionally
• interventionism
• interventionistic

 

Compound words and expressions

• crisis intervention
• currency intervention
• divine intervention
• humanitarian intervention
• percutaneous coronary intervention

 

Translations

act of intervening

• Arabic: تَدَخُّل m (tadaḵḵul), تَطَفُّل m (taṭafful)
• Azerbaijani: müdaxilə (az), qarışma
• Belarusian: умяша́нне (umjašánnje), уварва́нне n (uvarvánnje) (invasion), інтэрвэ́нцыя f (intervéncyja) (military)
• Bulgarian: наме́са (bg) f (namésa), вмеша́телство (bg) n (vmešátelstvo), интерве́нция (bg) f (intervéncija) (military)
• Catalan: intervenció (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 介入 (zh) (jièrù), 干預 (zh) (gānyù), 干涉 (zh) (gānshè)

• Czech: zásah (cs) m, intervence (cs) f
• Danish: intervention (da) c, indgreb n, indblandning c, medvirken, mellemkomst c
• Dutch: tussenkomst (nl) f
• Faroese: uppílegging, millumgonga
• Finnish: väliintulo (fi), interventio (fi)
• French: intervention (fr) f
• German: Intervention (de) f, Eingriff (de) m
• Greek: παρέμβαση (el) f (parémvasi)
• Hindi: हस्तक्षेप (hi) (hastakṣep), मुदाख़लत f (mudāxalat)
• Hungarian: beavatkozás (hu), intervenció (hu), közbelépés (hu)
• Icelandic: inngrip n, íhlutun (is) f
• Ido: interveno (io)
• Indonesian: ikut campur, campur tangan (id)
• Italian: intervento (it) m
• Japanese: 介入 (ja) (かいにゅう, kainyū)
• Kazakh: араласу (aralasu)
• Khmer: អន្តរាគមន៍ (km) (ʼɑntaʼraakum)
• Korean: 개입(介入) (ko) (gaeip)
• Latin: interventus (la) m
• Latvian: iejaukšanās f
• Malay: campur tangan (ms), intervensi
• Malayalam: ഇടപെടൽ (ml) (iṭapeṭal)
• Maori: wawaotanga
• Norwegian: intervensjon m

  Bokmål: innblanding, inngrep, medvirkning

  Nynorsk: innblanding, inngrep, medverknad

• Persian: مُداخِلِه (fa) (modâxele)
• Polish: interwencja (pl) f
• Portuguese: intervenção (pt) f
• Romanian: intervenție (ro) f
• Russian: вмеша́тельство (ru) n (vmešátelʹstvo), интерве́нция (ru) f (intervéncija) (military), вторже́ние (ru) n (vtoržénije) (invasion)
• Scottish Gaelic: eadar-theachd m
• Slovak: zásah m, intervencia f
• Spanish: intervención (es)
• Swedish: ingripande (sv) n, inblandning (sv) c, medverkan (sv) c
• Tagalog: interbensyon, pamamagitan (tl), pakikialam
• Tajik: мудохила (tg) (mudoxila)
• Turkish: müdahale (tr)
• Ukrainian: втруча́ння n (vtručánnja), інтерве́нція f (intervéncija) (military), вто́ргнення n (vtórhnennja) (invasion), інтерве́нція f (intervéncija) (military)
• Urdu: مُداخَلَت f (mudāxalat)
• Uzbek: aralashish (uz), mudoxala (uz)

medical procedure

• Bulgarian: интерве́нция (bg) f (intervéncija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 干預 (zh) (gānyù)

• Danish: indgreb n
• Dutch: ingreep (nl) m
• Finnish: toimenpide (fi)
• French: intervention (fr)
• German: Eingriff (de) m
• Hungarian: beavatkozás (hu)
• Indonesian: intervensi (id)
• Italian: intervento (it) m
• Portuguese: intervenção (pt)
• Russian: вмеша́тельство (ru) n (vmešátelʹstvo), интерве́нция (ru) f (intervéncija)
• Spanish: intervención (es)
• Swedish: ingrepp (sv) n

Anagrams

• introvenient

Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /entərvənsjoːn/, [entˢɐvənˈɕoːˀn]

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

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɑ̃.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

intervention f (plural interventions)

1. intervention

Further reading

• “intervention”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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