Intervention vs. Intervene

Interventionnoun

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

Interventionnoun

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.

Interventionnoun

An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.

Interventionnoun

(medicine) An action taken or procedure performed; an operation.

Interventionnoun

The act of intervening; interposition.

Interventionnoun

Any interference that may affect the interests of others; especially, of one or more states with the affairs of another; - the intervention of one state in the affairs of another is typically unwelcome by the state being intervened in, but some cases of mediation between states may be called intervention. Opposed to nonintervention.

Interventionnoun

The act by which a third person, to protect his own interest, interposes and becomes a party to a suit pending between other parties.

Interventionnoun

the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute)

Interventionnoun

a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries

Interventionnoun

(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;

Interveneverb

(intransitive) To become involved in a situation, so as to alter or prevent an action.

Interveneverb

(intransitive) To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events.

Interveneverb

(intransitive) To occur or act as an obstacle or delay.

Interveneverb

(ambitransitive) To say (something) in the middle of a conversation or discussion between other people, or to respond to a situation involving other people.

Interveneverb

(ambitransitive) To come between, or to be between, persons or things.

Interveneverb

(legal) In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter.

Interveneverb

To come between, or to be between, persons or things; - followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.

Interveneverb

To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and the report; nothing intervened ( i. e., between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking.

Interveneverb

To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel.

Interveneverb

In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter.

Interveneverb

To come between.

Intervenenoun

A coming between; intervention; meeting.

Interveneverb

get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force;

Interveneverb

be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events;

Interveneverb

occur between other event or between certain points of time;