[ in-ter-veen ]
verb (used without object)
- to come between disputing people, groups, etc.; intercede; mediate.
- to occur or be between two things.
- to occur or happen between other events or periods:
Nothing important intervened between the meetings.
- (of things) to occur incidentally so as to modify or hinder:
We enjoyed the picnic until a thunderstorm intervened.
- to interfere with force or a threat of force:
to intervene in the affairs of another country.
- Law. to interpose and become a party to a suit pending between other parties.
/ ˌɪntəˈviːn /
- often foll by in to take a decisive or intrusive role (in) in order to modify or determine events or their outcome
- foll byin or between to come or be (among or between)
- (of a period of time) to occur between events or points in time
- (of an event) to disturb or hinder a course of action
- economics to take action to affect the market forces of an economy, esp to maintain the stability of a currency
- law to interpose and become a party to a legal action between others, esp in order to protect one's interests
- ˌinterˈvener, noun
Other Words From
- rein·ter·vene verb (used without object) reintervened reintervening
- unin·ter·vening adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
The weekly reports have always been published by scientists and other public health professionals alone, without other branches of the government intervening.
Hancock said the new rule will be “rigorously enforced by police,” who currently have no powers to intervene when up to 30 people gather.
In the next few years, the company also plans to work to identify specific employees who may be at risk for developing a certain conditions and intervene, according to Lee.
It points to Russia, where Yandex was reportedly able to make mobile gains against Google, after antitrust regulators intervened, as provisional evidence for this predicted outcome.
NBC 7 got its hands on all three of the legal reviews, and after publishing a story last week detailing the failures of officials who brokered a deal that disproportionately benefited developers, Elliott’s office intervened.
Nothing in it was meant to change the basic operations of the capitalist economy or to intervene aggressively in class relations.
Please, Your Excellencies, consider my case with justice and intervene on my behalf.
Starr stresses that universities are required under Title IX to investigate and intervene in sexual assault cases.
Many Syrian rebels remain furious with what they view as a cynical U.S. decision to intervene in Syria against ISIS but not Assad.
Even if he had wanted to intervene, he couldn't have as he is "no Arnold Schwarzenegger," as he says.
Now and then Fortunio had to intervene, to make plainer to this ignorant Piedmontese mind the Marquise's questions.
His lordship would not intervene; he swore he hoped the cub would be flayed alive by Wilding.
The attack was so sudden that Walker went down, and Sanny was on top of him before anyone could intervene.
She looked at him, yet across her eyes, as across her soul, the same misty curtain seemed to intervene.