intervention

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.)

   it occurs without human intervention

2. 2
   noun

   The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   An action taken or procedure performed; an operation.

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)

5. 5
   noun

   (law) a proceeding that permits a person to enter into a lawsuit already in progress

6. 6
   noun

   the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others

7. 7
   noun

   a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries

8. 8
   noun

   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.

Etymology

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