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intervention

English

  1. 🔊 (law) a proceeding that permits a person to enter into a lawsuit already in progress
    “the purpose of intervention is to prevent unnecessary duplication of lawsuits”
  2. 🔊 the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.)
    “it occurs without human intervention”
  3. 🔊 a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries
  4. 🔊 care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)
  5. 🔊 the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others

Spanish

  1. 🔊 intervención intervention

Similar words

treatment interposition intercession interference encroachment entrance entrenchment impingement imposition incursion infiltration influx infringement injection inroad insinuation interagency intercession intercurrence interference interjacence interjection interlocation interloping