intermediate treatment

British  

noun

1. social welfare a form of child care for young people in trouble that involves neither custody nor punishment and provides opportunities to learn constructive patterns of behaviour to replace potentially criminal ones

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Example Sentences

The intermediate period needed intermediate treatment; the gap between James Madison and Abraham Lincoln could not be judicially filled by either of them.

From The Education of Henry Adams by Adams, Henry

The utility of raking, as an intermediate treatment between scrapings, seems to have been clearly demonstrated.

From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXXII, June, 1911 Water Purification Plant, Washington, D. C. Results of Operation. by Hardy, E. D.