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Meaning of intervention | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1 Standard
ɪntɚˈvɛnʃən

Definitions

  1. The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events
  2. The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
    countable, uncountable
  3. 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.
    US, countable, uncountable
  4. 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
  5. The act or an instance of interfering or intruding:interference, intrusion, meddling, obtrusion.
  6. An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.
    countable, uncountable
  7. An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior
  8. (an) act of intervening (in a quarrel etc). tussenkoms تَدَخُّل في نِزاع намеса intervenção zákrok das Eingreifen indgriben; intervention μεσολάβηση, παρέμβασηintervención vahelesegamine مداخله väliintulo interventionהתערבות मध्यवर्त intervencija beavatkozás perbuatan ikut campur meðalganga; afskipti intervento 仲裁 중재 įsikišimas iejaukšanās campur tangan tussenkomstinnblandinginterwencja مداخله intervenção intervenţie вмешательство zásah; zákrok posredovanje intervencija intervention, ingripan...
    etc
  9. An action taken or procedure performed; an operation.
    countable, uncountable
  10. An action taken or procedure performed; an operation
  11. The act or process of intervening: a nation's military interventions in neighboring countries; a politician opposed to government intervention in the market economy.
  12. The systematic process of assessment and planning employed to remediate or prevent a social, educational, or developmental problem: early intervention for at-risk toddlers.
  13. the act of intervening
  14. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) any interference in the affairs of others, esp by one state in the affairs of another
  15. (Economics) economics the action of a central bank in supporting the international value of a currency by buying large quantities of the currency to keep the price up
    economics
  16. (Commerce) commerce the action of the EU in buying up surplus produce when the market price drops to a certain value
    commerce
  17. the act or fact of intervening.
  18. interposition or interference of one state in the affairs of another.

Equivalents

Azərbaycanca müdaxilə qarışma
Беларуская уварванне
Български намеса
Català intervenció
Čeština intervence zásah
Dansk medvirken
Español intervención
Français intervention
Gàidhlig eadar-theachd
עברית מעורבות
Íslenska íhlutun inngrip
Italiano intervento
日本語 介入 内政干渉
Қазақша басқыншылық
한국어 개입 참전
Latina interventus
മലയാളം ഇടപെടൽ
Bahasa Melayu campur tangan
Nederlands ingreep tussenkomst
Português intervenção
Română intervenție
Türkçe müdahale tavassut
Oʻzbekcha mudoxala

Examples

“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.”
“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.”
““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.””

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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