v. to obtain the court's permission to enter into a lawsuit which...

1[intransitive] to become involved in a situation in order to improve or help it She might have been killed if the neighbors hadn't intervened. intervene in something The President intervened per [..]

1580s, "intercept" (obsolete), a back-formation from intervention, or else from Latin intervenire "to come between, intervene; interrupt; stand in the way, oppose, hinder," from in [..]

to come between two things.

to mediate or modify the outcome of an event.

To enter into a lawsuit that has already started between other parties, because a claim exists that is related to the existing case. Example: A grocery store sues a dairy producer for providing sub-pa [..]

get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force; "Why did the U.S. not intervene earlier in WW II?" be placed or located between other t [..]

become involved in

v. To interfere for some end.

Definition verb

ven·ed -ven·ing 1 : to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events [may be held liable even though other independent agencies between his negligence and the ultimate result ...

interfere (interrupt other's business).

(v) get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force(v) be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events(v) occur between other event [..]

An action by which a third person who may be affected by a lawsuit is permitted to become a party to the suit. Differs from the process of becoming an "amicus curiae."

v. to obtain the court's permission to enter into a lawsuit which has already started between other parties and to file a complaint stating the basis for a claim in the existing lawsuit. Such int [..]

after an opposing opening bid, to make the first non-pass call for one's side

(ambitransitive) To come between, or to be between, persons or things. ''The Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.'' * De Quincey *: self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, etc., inte [..]

lang=en 1800s=1813 * '''1813''' — . ''''. *: Mr. Bingley arrived. Mrs. Bennet, through the assistance of servants, contrived to have the earliest tidings of it, that the period of anxiety and fretf [..]