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What does intervention mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word intervention? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
  2. (US, law) 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.
  3. An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.
  4. (medicine) An action taken or procedure performed; an operation.
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These regulations will normally be applied at national level by a national intervention agency.
Alcohol ignition interlocks have been proposed as a further intervention to reduce the prevalence of recidivist drink driving.
It's a difficult thing to talk about in a way, because human intervention and control over the world have quite a bad rap at the moment.
Such intervention most often heightens divisions and tensions around the world rather than bringing peace.
The window period for intervention and measurement is therefore often shorter than optimal.
The goal of intervention is to provide symptomatic relief and to lower the deliriant threshold.

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