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Intervention vs Interventive - What's the difference?

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Interventive is a related term of intervention.



As a noun intervention

is the action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.

As an adjective interventive is

serving to intervene or interpose; intervening.

intervention

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 29 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Fernando Torres was recalled in place of the suspended Didier Drogba and he was only denied a goal in the opening seconds by Laurent Koscielny's intervention - a moment that set the tone for game filled with attacking quality and littered with errors.}}
  • (US, legal) A legal motion through which a person or entity who has not been named as a party to a case seeks to have the court order that they be made a party.
  • An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.

    • Derived terms

    * divine intervention * interventionism * macrointervention * microintervention

    interventive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Serving to intervene or interpose; intervening.
  • * {{quote-book, 1817, William Jones, Studies of Chess, chapter=Towards attaining a fixed Principle on a contested Elementary Point, page=405, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=UvMIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA405
    • , passage=The Laws, or Interventive Regulations, obviate or decide disputes, between players, respecting punctilios in placing the board and pieces, and limit the penalties for irregularities.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=1997, date=June 20, author=Angela Bowman, title=Labor Dispute, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=In a hospital setting, midwives are following protocols that are part of a more interventive model of care. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=June 27, author=, title=Same-Sex Marriage: Parsing the Arguments (1 Letter), work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=His opposition to same-sex marriage rests upon two familiar conservative notions: the view that interventive “protection” rather than encouragement is the best way to bolster the presumably threatened institution of marriage

    Derived terms

    * interventively * interventiveness

    Related terms

    * intervene * intervention * interventional * interventionary