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interventive

interventive

8.5
Actions by a government or organization that step in to change political and military events
  • adjective
  • /ˌɪntərˈvɛntɪv/
translation icon : interventor
  • The country's interventive policies helped stabilize the economy during the crisis.

Examples

  • Many argue that interventive military actions are necessary to protect human rights.

  • The organization's interventive approach aimed to resolve the conflict between the two nations.

  • But I suppose one can say that about any interventive government action, huh?

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Antonyms

hands-off
26 5.3

Not taking an active part and allowing others to act freely

nonintervention
  • Formal
1 7.6

A policy of not getting involved in other countries' wars or politics

How Interventionist

militaristic
8 7.4
interventive
8.5

Surface Forms

interventive positive

Morphology

interventive = intervention (transparent) = intervention + ive

Formed by attaching the productive adjectival suffix '-ive' to 'intervention'; the meaning 'relating to intervention' is directly derivable.

Etymology

Interventive comes from the parts inter- ('between') and venire ('to come'), the same idea you see in intervene and intervention. That's why an interventive policy means a state or group 'comes between' people or events to try to stop or change a situation, like a government stepping in after a crisis.