Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To involve oneself in a situation so as to alter or hinder an action or development.
- intransitive verb To interfere, usually through force or threat of force, in the affairs of another nation.
- intransitive verb Law To enter into a lawsuit as a third party to assert a claim against one or both of the existing parties.
- intransitive verb To come, appear, or lie between two things.
- intransitive verb To come or occur between two periods or points of time.
- intransitive verb To occur as an extraneous or unplanned circumstance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To come between; fall or happen between things, persons, periods, or events; be intermediate, or appear or happen intermediately.
- To come between in act; act intermediately or mediatorially; interfere or interpose, as between persons, parties, or states.
- In law, to interpose and become a party to a suit pending between other parties: as, stockholders may intervene in a suit against directors.
- To come between; divide.
- noun A coming together; a meeting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by
between . - intransitive verb To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events
- intransitive verb To interpose.
- intransitive verb In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter.
- noun obsolete A coming between; intervention; meeting.
- transitive verb rare To come between.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.
- verb To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and the report; nothing intervened ( i. e., between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking.
- verb To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel; get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action
- verb law In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events
- verb occur between other event or between certain points of time
- verb get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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For libertarians — who CONSTANTLY complain about government intervention — now to complain about government for failing to intervene is the very picture of chutzpah.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Bruce Bartlett’s Attack on Libertarianism 2010
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For libertarians — who CONSTANTLY complain about government intervention — now to complain about government for failing to intervene is the very picture of chutzpah.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Bruce Bartlett’s Attack on Libertarianism 2010
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The prime reason we're continuing to intervene is we want to protect, we want to not penalize the export sector excessively, and this issue is becoming very very difficult globally.
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Reuters The dollar reached a two-week low against the yen, amid speculation Japan may again intervene in currency markets.
Dollar Slides Against Euro and Yen Andrew J. Johnson 2010
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The U.S. assumption that the Chinese would intervene is inconsistent, literally, with two millenia of Vietnamese history.
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"The prime reason we're continuing to intervene is we want to protect, we want to not penalize the export sector excessively" from exaggerated currency fluctuations, he said.
Israel's Bank Chief Defends Interventions Charles Levinson 2010
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Your statement that the courts are reluctant to intervene is irrelevant since the Judicial branch was specifically created to serve as a check and balance against overreaching by the legislative and executive branches, and thankfully, we as citizens do have the standing to sue in the federal court if the Congress attempts to pass the Health Care “Whatever” into a law.
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Instead it will be those that know that sitting around HOPING and PRAYing in some invisible god to intervene is not doing anything productive.
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Your statement that the courts are reluctant to intervene is irrelevant since the Judicial branch was specifically created to serve as a check and balance against overreaching by the legislative and executive branches, and thankfully, we as citizens do have the standing to sue in the federal court if the Congress attempts to pass the Health Care “Whatever” into a law.
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I no longer know if the will to intervene is something that an institute like Boston College can teach.
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