Intervention
[ɪntə'venʃ(ə)n] or [,ɪntɚ'vɛnʃən]
Definition
(noun.) (law) a proceeding that permits a person to enter into a lawsuit already in progress; admission of person not an original party to the suit so that person can protect some right or interest that is allegedly affected by the proceedings; 'the purpose of intervention is to prevent unnecessary duplication of lawsuits'.
(noun.) the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.); 'it occurs without human intervention'.
(noun.) a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries.
Inputed by Franklin--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of intervening; interposition.
(n.) Any interference that may affect the interests of others; especially, of one or more states with the affairs of another; mediation.
(n.) The act by which a third person, to protect his own interest, interposes and becomes a party to a suit pending between other parties.
Edited by Jimmy
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Interposition, interference.[2]. Mediation, agency.
Editor: Terence
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Intrusion, insinuation, interference, intercession, mediation, agency,interposition
ANT:Continuance, nonintervention, uninterruptedness, noninterference
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Examples
- He provoked the military intervention of Rome. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Also he was piqued that he had been what he called such a stupid lout as to ask that intervention from Mr. Farebrother. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Without the intervention of his labour, Nature does herself the greater part of the work which remains to be done. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Was there any one, he wondered, to whom Madame Olenska had not proclaimed his intervention in her private affairs? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Nothing had come of her zealous intervention; nor could I infer, from what he told me, that any clue had been obtained, for a moment, to Emily's fate. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- This re quired the intervention of specialists, expert rope-fasteners, who laid off a triangle by means of a rope divided into three parts, of three, four, and five units. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- But Karkov had this belief in the good which could come from his own accessibility and the humanizing possibility of benevolent intervention. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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