# intervention
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ɪntɚˈvɛnʃən/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɪntəˈvɛnʃən/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛnʃən
* Hyphenation: in‧ter‧ven‧tion

### Noun

intervention (countable and uncountable, plural interventions)
* The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
** 2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport‎: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.
* (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.
* An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.
* (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:“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.”

#### Derived terms

* cointervention
* macrointervention
* microintervention
* neurointervention
* nonintervention
* postintervention
* preintervention
* prointervention
* reintervention
* teleintervention
* interventional → interventionally
* interventionism
* interventionistic
* crisis intervention
* currency intervention
* divine intervention
* humanitarian intervention
* percutaneous coronary intervention

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* introvenient

## Danish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /entərvənsjoːn/, [entˢɐvənˈɕoːˀn]

### Noun

intervention c (singular definite interventionen, plural indefinite interventioner)
* (law) intervention
    Synonyms: indblanding, indgriben

#### Inflection
## Finnish
### Noun

intervention
* genitive singular of interventio

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin interventiōnem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.vɑ̃.sjɔ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

intervention f (plural interventions)
* intervention

### Further reading

* “intervention”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Interlingua
### Noun

intervention (plural interventiones)
* intervention

## Swedish
### Noun

intervention c
* (law) intervention
    Synonyms: ingripande, inblandning