intervention

intervention has 8 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 12.

Definitions

• n.. The act of intervening; interposition.
• n.. Any interference that may affect the interests of others; especially, of one or more states with the affairs of another; mediation.
• n.. The act by which a third person, to protect his own interest, interposes and becomes a party to a suit pending between other parties.
• n.. care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)
• n.. (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"
• n.. the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others
• n.. the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.); "it occurs without human intervention"
• n.. a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries