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Definition: mediate
Antonyms: ignore, leave alone

This entry contains information applicable to United States law only.

An individual who is not already a party to an existing lawsuit but who makes himself or herself a party either by joining with the plaintiff or uniting with the defendant in resistance of the plaintiff's claims.

The act of intervening in a disease or epidemiological sequence.

• i. strategy — in the sequence of examination, diagnosis, treatment and control it is necessary, especially in herd problems, to design a strategy for intervening, either to test the hypothesis or to plan the treatment and control sequence which may require a change in the environment, the feeding regime or the breeding practices; for most efficient use of resources the intervention may need detailed planning.
• i. study — testing an hypothesized epidemiological cause–effect relationship by intervening in a population and modifying a supposed causal factor and measuring the effect of the change.

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• Relative Positions - intervening: (adj) lying or placed between

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See words rhyming with "intervener."

  See crossword solutions for the clue Intervene.

Dansk (Danish)
v. intr. - gribe ind, lægge sig imellem, mægle, intervenere

Nederlands (Dutch)
tussenbeide komen, ingrijpen, ertussen komen

Français (French)
v. intr. - intervenir, arriver, se produire, s'interposer

Deutsch (German)
v. - eingreifen, intervenieren, dazwischenkommen

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - παρεμβαίνω, επεμβαίνω, (δια)μεσολαβώ, (για χρόνο) περνώ

Italiano (Italian)
intervenire, interporsi

Português (Portuguese)
v. - intervir

Русский (Russian)
вмешиваться, происходить

Español (Spanish)
v. intr. - tomar parte, participar, intervenir

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - komma emellan, intervenera, medla, infalla

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
插入, 干涉, 调停

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. intr. - 插入, 干涉, 調停

한국어 (Korean)
v. intr. - 사이에 들다, 방해하다, 중재하다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 間にある, 邪魔をする, 仲裁に入る, 調停する, 間に起こる, 介入する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يطرأ, يتخلل, يتدخل‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. intr. - ‮התערב, הפריע, הפריד, התרחש בינתיים, חלף בינתיים, התערב במשפט כצד שלישי, תיווך‬

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