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Intervener

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in·ter·vene  (ntr-vn)
intr.v. in·ter·vened, in·ter·ven·ing, in·ter·venes
1. To come, appear, or lie between two things: You can't see the lake from there because the house intervenes.
2. To come or occur between two periods or points of time: A year intervened between the two dynasties.
3. To occur as an extraneous or unplanned circumstance: He would have his degree by now if his laziness hadn't intervened.
4.
a. To involve oneself in a situation so as to alter or hinder an action or development: "Every gardener faces choices about how and how much to intervene in nature's processes" Dora Galitzki.
b. To interfere, usually through force or threat of force, in the affairs of another nation.
5. Law To enter into a suit as a third party for one's own interests.

[Latin intervenre : inter-, inter- + venre, to come; see gw- in Indo-European roots.]

inter·venor, inter·vener n.
inter·vention (-vnshn) n.
inter·vention·al adj.

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As the CF reconfigures itself from an organization designed as a participant in inter-state conflict to one routinely deployed as an intervener in intra-state conflict, the need to achieve tactical dominance throughout the FSO will gain primacy.
Owens and the interveners stressed that the issue was behaviour and not sexual orientation.
The Advocacy Centre for the Elderly, People First of Canada and Canadian Association for Community Living were interveners in the case.
 
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