intervention

See also: Intervention

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) From Middle French intervention, from Latin interventiō

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪntɚˈvɛnʃən/
• IPA^(key): /ɪntəˈvɛnʃən/
• 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.

Derived terms

• cointervention
• currency intervention
• divine intervention
• humanitarian intervention
• interventional
• interventionally
• interventionism
• interventionistic
• macrointervention
• microintervention
• neurointervention
• nonintervention
• postintervention
• preintervention
• prointervention
• reintervention
• teleintervention

 

Translations

act of intervening

• Arabic: تَدَخُّل m (tadaḵḵul), تَطَفُّل m (taṭafful)
• Bulgarian: намеса (bg) f (namesa), вмешателство (bg) n (vmešatelstvo)
• Catalan: intervenció (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 介入 (zh) (jièrù)

• Danish: intervention c, indgreb n
• Dutch: tussenkomst (nl) f
• Finnish: väliintulo, interventio (fi)
• French: intervention (fr)
• German: Intervention (de) f, Eingriff (de) m
• Greek: παρέμβαση (el) f (parémvasi)
• Hindi: हस्तक्षेप (hi) (hastakṣep)
• Hungarian: beavatkozás (hu), intervenció (hu)
• Icelandic: inngrip n
• Ido: interveno (io)
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• Indonesian: intervensi (id), campur tangan (id)
• Italian: intervento (it) m
• Japanese: 介入 (かいにゅう, kainyū)
• Khmer: អន្តរាគមន៍ (km) (ʼɑntaʼraakum)
• Latvian: iejaukšanās f
• Malay: campur tangan, intervensi
• Norwegian: intervensjon m
• Polish: interwencja (pl) f
• Portuguese: intervenção (pt) f
• Russian: вмеша́тельство (ru) n (vmešátelʹstvo), интерве́нция (ru) f (intervéncija) (military), вторже́ние (ru) n (vtoržénije) (invasion)
• Scottish Gaelic: eadar-theachd m
• Spanish: intervención (es)
• Swedish: ingripande (sv) n
• Ukrainian: втруча́ння n (vtručánnja), інтерве́нція f (intervéncija) (military), вто́ргнення n (vtórhnennja) (invasion)

medical procedure

• Bulgarian: интервенция (bg) (intervencija)
• Danish: indgreb n
• Finnish: toimenpide (fi)
• French: intervention (fr)
• German: Eingriff (de) m
• Hungarian: beavatkozás (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: intervento (it) m
• Portuguese: intervenção (pt)
• Spanish: intervención (es)
• Swedish: ingrepp (sv) n

Anagrams

• introvenient

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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. intervention

Inflection

Declension of intervention

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

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Finnish

Noun

intervention

1. (deprecated template usage) genitive singular of interventio

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin interventiō, interventiōnem.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

intervention f (plural interventions)

1. intervention

Further reading

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

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Interlingua

Noun

intervention (plural interventiones)

1. intervention