Word Meanings - INTERVENTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act by which a third person, to protect his own interest, interposes and becomes a party to a suit pending between other parties. (more info) 1. The act of intervening; interposition. Sound is shut out by the intervention of that lax membrane.

Additional info about word: INTERVENTION

The act by which a third person, to protect his own interest, interposes and becomes a party to a suit pending between other parties. (more info) 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INTERVENTION)

• Instrumentality
• Agency
• intervention
• medium
• use
• employment
• means
• Intercurrence
• Intervention
• intrusion
• intervenience
• interception

Related words: (words related to INTERVENTION)

• INTERCEPTION
  The act of intercepting; as, interception of a letter; interception of the enemy.
• INTRUSIONIST
  One who intrudes; especially, one who favors the appointment of a clergyman to a parish, by a patron, against the wishes of the parishioners.
• INTRUSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to intrusion.
• INTERVENTION
  The act by which a third person, to protect his own interest, interposes and becomes a party to a suit pending between other parties. (more info) 1. The act of intervening; interposition. Sound is shut out by the intervention of that lax membrane.
• INSTRUMENTALITY
  The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency. The instrumentality of faith in justification. Bp. Burnet. The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of attack and defense
• AGENCY
  1. The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality. The superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world. Woodward. 2. The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between
• EMPLOYMENT
  1. The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed. 2. That which engages or occupies; that which consumes time or attention; office or post of business; service; as, agricultural employments; mechanical employments;
• MEDIUM
  See PAPER (more info) 1. That which lies in the middle, or between other things; intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically: Middle place or degree; mean. The just medium . . . lies between pride
• INTRUSION
  The penetrating of one rock, while in a plastic or metal state, into the cavities of another. (more info) 1. The act of intruding, or of forcing in; especially, the forcing into a place without right or welcome; encroachment. Why this intrusion
• INTERCURRENCE
  A passing or running between; occurrence. Boyle.
• INTERVENIENCE; INTERVENIENCY
  Intervention; interposition.
• MEDIUM-SIZED
  Having a medium size; as, a medium-sized man.
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• INTERAGENCY
  Intermediate agency.
• DISEMPLOYMENT
  The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment. This glut of leisure and disemployment. Jer. Taylor.
• SUBAGENCY
  A subordinate agency.
• MISEMPLOYMENT
  Wrong or mistaken employment. Johnson.
• INTERMEDIUM
  The bone or cartilage between the radiale and ulnare in the carpus, and between the tibiale and fibulare in the tarsus. It corresponds to the lunar in the carpus, and to a part of the astragalus in the tarsus of man and most mammals. (more info)
• NONINTERVENTION
  The state or habit of not intervening or interfering; as, the nonintervention of one state in the affairs of another.
• COAGENCY
  Agency in common; joint agency or agent. Coleridge.