intervention
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See also: Intervention
English
Etymology
From Middle French intervention, from Latin interventiō.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɪntɚˈvɛnʃən/
Audio (US): (file) - (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪntəˈvɛnʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛnʃən
- Hyphenation: in‧ter‧ven‧tion
Noun
intervention (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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 2023 May 24, Sandee LaMotte, “Can a daily multivitamin slow cognitive aging? Maybe”, in CNN:
- “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.”
Derived terms
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Compound words and expressions
Translations
act of intervening
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medical procedure
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Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
From Latin interventiō, from interveniō (“I intervene, come between”).
Pronunciation
Noun
intervention c (singular definite interventionen, plural indefinite interventioner)
- (law) intervention
- Synonyms: indblanding, indgriben
Inflection
common gender |
singular | plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | intervention | interventionen | interventioner | interventionerne |
genitive | interventions | interventionens | interventioners | interventionernes |
Finnish
Noun
intervention
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin interventiōnem.
Pronunciation
Noun
intervention f (plural interventions)
Further reading
- “intervention”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Interlingua
Noun
intervention (plural interventiones)
Swedish
Noun
intervention c
- (law) intervention
- Synonyms: ingripande, inblandning
Declension
nominative | genitive | ||
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singular | indefinite | intervention | interventions |
definite | interventionen | interventionens | |
plural | indefinite | interventioner | interventioners |
definite | interventionerna | interventionernas |
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