intervention
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4.1
- noun
- /ˌɪntərˈvɛnʃən/
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intervención
- Now, that's what I call divine intervention!
- government intervention
- military intervention
- humanitarian intervention
I think there has to be some top down interventions as well.
- I think there has to be some top down interventions as well.
- She seems much more inclined toward foreign intervention than Trump is.
- Buying a gym membership is an example of kind of a direct intervention that often fails.
- AKA is human intervention causing more accidents or is human intervention preventing accidents?
- Can you speak to how this created problems in terms of US intervention?
- So a lot a long time after the intervention itself was stopped.
- And then the intervention would be what?
- We're not able to monetize a simple intervention, single intervention to a single output.
- It just means that we can recognize where we make our own interventions into it.
Examples
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Fear continues to grow that without the United States' intervention, France could soon fall.
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She seems much more inclined toward foreign intervention than Trump is.
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So where did that intervention start to come into your world?
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This is what I would call an intervention.
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This was beginning to look less like intervention and more like occupation.
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Here he is weighing in on military intervention in Syria.
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Free speech does not just happen and require intervention when it is impeded.
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What does this mean for the policy interventions that governments might make to alter behaviors?
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But how do we identify and find replicable interventions to close those gaps?
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The charity's intervention helped families affected by the flood rebuild their homes.
Synonyms
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4.2
A neutral person helps people who disagree reach an agreement
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8.1
Helping two sides reach an agreement by a neutral person
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8.4
An action that helps someone by asking or speaking up for them
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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4.7
Short urgent support for someone in severe emotional distress to help them cope and return to normal life
How Active
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Intervention comes from the parts inter- 'between' and venire 'to come', so it originally meant 'to come between'; this helps to remember a military or foreign intervention as someone coming in between groups to try to change or control the situation.