- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- the act of intervening
- any interference in the affairs of others, esp by one state in the affairs of another
- 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
- the action of the EU in buying up surplus produce when the market price drops to a certain value
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