intervention

See also: Intervention

English

Etymology

From Middle French intervention, from Latin interventiō. Morphologically intervene +‎ -tion.

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)

  1. The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
    • 2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport‎[1], archived from the original on 8 November 2011:
      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.
    • 2023 May 24, Sandee LaMotte, “Can a daily multivitamin slow cognitive aging? Maybe”, in CNN‎[2], Atlanta, Ga.: Warner Bros. Discovery, archived from the original on 10 March 2026:
      “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.”
    • 2023 September 14, Catherine Ho, “Why experts say ‘everyone’ should carry Narcan, the powerful opioid-reversal medication”, in San Francisco Chronicle‎[3], archived from the original on 20 April 2024:
      [Naloxone] won’t replace other important interventions, like drug treatment programs, but it can help save a life in the critical minutes after someone overdoses.

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Danish

Etymology

From Latin interventiō, from interveniō (“to 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

    Learned borrowing from Latin interventiō.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    intervention f (plural interventions)

    1. intervention

    Further reading

    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
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