intervention
IPA: ɪntɝvˈɛntʃʌn
noun
- The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
- (US, law) A legal motion through which a person or entity who has not been named as a party to a case seeks to have the court order that they be made a party.
- An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.
- (medicine) An action taken or procedure performed; an operation.
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Examples of "intervention" in Sentences
- I appreciate the timely intervention.
- They breed and whelp without any intervention.
- IMF interventions aggravated the poverty severity.
- There were importunate interventions of the company.
- After divine intervention, the laborer triumphs in the end.
- Expectant ManagementThis is equivalent of zero intervention.
- The concept of deliberate intervention into the existing process.
- What was the name of the general that authorized the intervention
- After the personal intervention of the emperor, the ban was lifted.
- The republic was crushed by the intervention of the Romanian military.
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