intervention

CEFRC1

/ɪntɚˈvɛnʃən/

noun

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In plain English

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noun
Action taken to change or improve a situation.
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noun
Extra detail
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.

Examples

His family staged an intervention to confront his abuse of prescription drugs.
State intervention should be conducted by generating positive and intense incentives.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.
The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
An action taken or procedure performed; an operation.

In context

Calls for government intervention to save the steel industry
As I showed, although some rhetoricians, such as Mesmer and Erb, claimed that their interventions were medical treatments, others, such as Freud and Jung, claimed that their interventions were both medical curings and spiritual carings.

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As I showed, although some rhetoricians, such as Mesmer and Erb, claimed that their interventions were medical treatments, others, such as Freud and Jung, claimed that their interventions were both medical curings and spiritual carings.
1988, Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy, page 183
Fernando Torres was recalled in place of the suspended Didier Drogba and he was only denied a goal in the opening seconds by Laurent Koscielny's intervention - a moment that set the tone for game filled with attacking quality and littered with errors.
2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport
“It goes with my mantra of there is ‘no magic pill’ to prevent cognitive decline,” said Isaacson, who was not involved in the new study. “At my clinic, we check nutritional blood measures and personally tailor interventions, and in doing so we don’t tend to recommend multivitamins since we address the individual deficiencies.”
2023 May 24, Sandee LaMotte, “Can a daily multivitamin slow cognitive aging? Maybe”, in CNN

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From Middle French intervention, from Latin interventiō. Morphologically intervene + -tion.