Intervention Meaning
/ɪntɚˈvɛnʃən/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
nounA 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.
Sentence Examples
State intervention should be conducted by generating positive and intense incentives.
His family staged an intervention to confront his abuse of prescription drugs.
Calls for government intervention to save the steel industry
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The doctor's early ____ in the disease prevented it from becoming much worse.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Early ____ is often the key to successfully treating many complex childhood developmental issues.
Word Origin & History
From Middle French intervention, from Latin interventiō. Morphologically intervene + -tion.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"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:
"“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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CEFR Practice Quiz
The doctor's early ____ in the disease prevented it from becoming much worse.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Early ____ is often the key to successfully treating many complex childhood developmental issues.