intervention
/ɪntɚˈvɛnʃən/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.26 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
American usage; Countable; Uncountable
noun
An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "“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.”"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *gʷem-, intervention, interventiō
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɪntɚˈvɛnʃən/
- British English: /ɪntəˈvɛnʃən/
Usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- American usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
non-intervention
interventional → interventionally
crisis intervention
currency intervention
divine intervention
humanitarian intervention
percutaneous coronary intervention