how to pronounce intervention

/ˌɪn.təˈvɛn.ʃən/

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intervention is pronounced in four syllables

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An example use of intervention in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… to have that intervention we as doctors …”

meaning of intervention

Intervention is the act of intervening in a situation or event.

intervention frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word intervention occurs in english on average 31.9 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics intervention can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that intervention can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) communication, information, and media;

3) people, society, and culture;