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
With so much research to wade through, it’s hard to know what to trust — and I say that as someone who makes a living researching what types of interventions motivate people to change their behaviors.
Why Coming Up With Effective Interventions To Address COVID-19 Is So Hard | Neil Lewis Jr. (nlewisjr@cornell.edu) | September 14, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightResearchers have rightly realized that individual variation is just as important as the average response to an intervention.
Why Altitude Training Helps Some but Not Others | Alex Hutchinson | September 11, 2020 | Outside OnlineHe will try to avoid using his military for an overt intervention, fearful that this would provoke another round of Western sanctions.
That kind of legal intervention would take unprecedented advocacy.
Eight case studies on regulating biometric technology show us a path forward | Karen Hao | September 4, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewThe ability to measure and detect it could help identify those at risk and pave the way for new kinds of interventions.
Why do you feel lonely? Neuroscience is starting to find answers. | Amy Nordrum | September 4, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
But South Koreans have a troubled history with American intervention in Korean markets.
Propaganda, Protest, and Poisonous Vipers: The Cinema War in Korea | Rich Goldstein | December 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAmerican intervention in Korea has frequently sparked protests, especially over film.
Propaganda, Protest, and Poisonous Vipers: The Cinema War in Korea | Rich Goldstein | December 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMy family is ready to mount an intervention, and cancel my streaming accounts.
The second intervention was much more blatant and actually occurred in the middle of an election campaign.
The Inside Story of U.S. Meddling in Israel’s Elections | Aaron David Miller | December 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMitochondrial intervention is the practice of replacing DNA that carries a genetic disease.
Want Blue Eyes With That Baby?: The Strange New World of Human Reproduction | Eleanor Clift | November 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI cannot see in science, nor in experience, nor in history any signs of such a God, nor of such intervention.
God and my Neighbour | Robert BlatchfordDe Robeck agrees that we don't know enough yet to warrant us in fault-finding or intervention.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonThat money was formerly collected and placed in the treasury through the intervention of the royal officials.
Too near for reflection; too far for intervention: on tenter hooks, in fact; a sort of mental crucifixion.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonThe carriage was packed already and but for a friend's intervention I could not have been able to secure even a seat.
Third class in Indian railways | Mahatma Gandhi
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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