Dictionary Entry
intervention
intervention is a 12-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of intervening; interposition. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
12 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 19 · 8 senses
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- 1noun
The act of intervening; interposition.
- 2noun
Any interference that may affect the interests of others; especially, of one or more states with the affairs of another; mediation.
- 3noun
The act by which a third person, to protect his own interest, interposes and becomes a party to a suit pending between other parties.
- 4noun
care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)
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- 5noun
(law) a proceeding that permits a person to enter into a lawsuit already in progress; admission of person not an original party to the suit so that person can protect some right or interest that is allegedly affected by the proceedings
"the purpose of intervention is to prevent unnecessary duplication of lawsuits"
- 6noun
the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others
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- 7noun
the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.)
"it occurs without human intervention"
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- 8noun
a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries
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