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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

não-intervenção

Pronunciation / Transliteration: nɐ̃w̃.ĩ.tɛɾ.vẽˈsɐ̃w

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Non-intervention/ˌnɒn.ɪn.təˈvɛn.ʃən/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O tratado defende a soberania e a não-intervenção nos assuntos internos."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The principle or practice of not becoming involved in the affairs of other countries, organizations, or individuals.

    "The country maintained a strict foreign policy of non-intervention in regional conflicts."
  2. 2

    Absence of interference or meddling by an authority in a domestic or private matter.

    "The new economic policy relies on government non-intervention and free-market forces."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the English prefix non- (meaning 'not') combined with intervention, which traces back to the Latin interventio, from intervenire ('to come between'). Formed in the context of international relations and political philosophy during the 18th and 19th centuries, it evolved to describe a formal policy of abstaining from interfering in the internal affairs of other sovereign states.

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