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intervention

See also: Intervention

English

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Etymology

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From Middle French intervention, from Latin interventiō.

Morphologically intervene +‎ -tion.

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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.

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Danish

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Etymology

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

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

Noun

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intervention c (singular definite interventionen, plural indefinite interventioner)

  1. (law) intervention
    Synonyms: indblanding, indgriben

Inflection

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

Finnish

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Noun

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intervention

  1. genitive singular of interventio

French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin interventiōnem.

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intervention f (plural interventions)

  1. intervention

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Interlingua

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intervention (plural interventiones)

  1. intervention

Swedish

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intervention c

  1. (law) intervention
    Synonyms: ingripande, inblandning

Declension

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Declension of intervention
nominative genitive
singular indefinite intervention interventions
definite interventionen interventionens
plural indefinite interventioner interventioners
definite interventionerna interventionernas
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