intervention
the act or fact of coming or occurring between two people, things, or times: Squabbling siblings generally work things out themselves, but this fight called for parental intervention.Even the intervention of 20 years hadn’t erased their mutual dislike.
interposition or interference of one state in the affairs of another: The UN’s prohibition of armed intervention in the civil war can easily be criticized as antihumanitarian.
a planned confrontation of someone engaging in self-destructive behavior, such as substance abuse, to convince them to seek treatment: She thought her drinking was a well-kept secret until she came home to find six of her siblings and friends ready to conduct an intervention.
Education. a targeted short-term teaching strategy for students with specific needs: Reading interventions kept several of her students from having to switch to remedial classes.
Medicine/Medical. a treatment, procedure, or other action taken to prevent or treat disease, or to improve health in other ways: The patient has responded well to nonpharmacological interventions for high blood pressure.
Origin of intervention
1Other words from intervention
- in·ter·ven·tion·al, in·ter·ven·tion·ar·y, adjective
- pro·in·ter·ven·tion, adjective
- re·in·ter·ven·tion, noun
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How to use intervention in a sentence
Bezos’s mother was pregnant with him while still in high school in 1960s New Mexico, and she would have been expelled for it but for her father’s intervention.
Jeff Bezos’s thoughts on Big Business, outer space and The Washington Post | James Ledbetter | November 20, 2020 | Washington PostRather, the goal is to lay the groundwork for political intervention.
Rudy Giuliani’s post-election meltdown starts to become literal | Dan Zak, Josh Dawsey | November 20, 2020 | Washington PostOther Midwestern states — Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and Indiana — also stood out among the most frequent users of these interventions, according to an analysis of the federal data by the Tribune and ProPublica Illinois.
National Ban on School Use of Seclusion and Restraint of Students Introduced in Congress | by Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica and Jennifer Smith Richards, Chicago Tribune | November 19, 2020 | ProPublicaIt would also direct ISBE to sanction schools that don’t follow the state law on seclusion and restraint and would require schools to make a plan to reduce — and eventually eliminate — their reliance on the interventions.
New Data Shows the Use of Seclusion and Restraint Increased in Illinois Schools During the 2017–18 School Year | by Jennifer Smith Richards, Chicago Tribune, and Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica | November 17, 2020 | ProPublicaSo “we need to invest in multiple intervention strategies instead of just one,” Saskia Popescu, an infectious disease epidemiologist and assistant professor with George Mason University, says.
How to have a safer — but not safe — pandemic Thanksgiving | Brian Resnick | November 11, 2020 | Vox
Or Scott Kelly, also well trained as an interventional radiologist (though without a video).
Doctors as Doormats in the David Petraeus Scandal | Kent Sepkowitz | November 14, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTShe is married to Scott Broadwell, an interventional radiologist.
Paula Broadwell, David Petraeus’s Biographer, Is Allegedly His Mistress | Isabel Wilkinson | November 10, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
British Dictionary definitions for intervention
/ (ˌɪntəˈvɛnʃən) /
the act of intervening
any interference in the affairs of others, esp by one state in the affairs of another
economics the action of a central bank in supporting the international value of a currency by buying large quantities of the currency to keep the price up
commerce the action of the EU in buying up surplus produce when the market price drops to a certain value
Derived forms of intervention
- interventional, adjective
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