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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Intervention \In`ter*ven"tion\, n. [L. interventio an interposition: cf F. intervention.] 1. The act of intervening; interposition. Sound is shut out by the intervention of that lax membrane. --Holder. 2. Any interference that may affect the interests of others especially, of one or more states with the affairs of another; mediation. Let us decide our quarrels at home, without the intervention, of any foreign power. --Sir W. Temple. 3. (Civil Law) The act by which a third person, to protect his own interest, interposes and becomes a party to a suit pending between other parties. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: intervention n 1: the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute) [syn: {intercession}] 2: a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries [syn: {interference}] [ant: {nonintervention}, {nonintervention}]
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