🏥 A second procedure ⚔️ Acting again

reintervention

8.9

Action by a government or outside group to act again in another country's affairs

noun
/ˌriːɪnˈtɜːrvənʃən/

Specialized

: reintervención

The government debated whether a reintervention in the conflict would help restore peace.

Examples

The government announced a reintervention in the economic crisis.
After the initial withdrawal, calls for reintervention grew as the crisis worsened.
International organizations warned that reintervention could escalate tensions in the region.
After the initial failure, a reintervention was deemed necessary.
The government debated whether a reintervention in the conflict would help restore peace.
After the initial withdrawal, calls for reintervention grew as the crisis worsened.
International organizations warned that reintervention could escalate tensions in the region.

How Involved

interventionism

2 7.6

reintervention

Specialized

8.9

intervention

258 4.1

to embargo

Formal

1 7.0

disaster relief

19 3.1

diplomatic negotiations

2 3.9

nonintervention

Formal

1 7.6

Surface Forms

reintervention singular

reinterventions plural

Morphology

reintervention = intervention (transparent) = re + interven + tion

The meaning is directly 'intervention again' in the same political, military, or economic sense.

Etymology

Reintervention breaks into re- meaning 'again' and intervention, from the verb intervene, meaning 'to step in'; so a political reintervention is when a government or group steps in again into a conflict or crisis to try to solve it.