INTERVENOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intervenor mean? 

• INTERVENOR (noun)
  The noun INTERVENOR has 1 sense:

1. (law) a party who interposes in a pending proceeding

  Familiarity information: INTERVENOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERVENOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(law) a party who interposes in a pending proceeding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("intervenor" is a kind of...):

party (a person involved in legal proceedings)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Derivation:

intervene (get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force)