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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.
The nomination underscores the real economic and financial interests at stake in the US military intervention in Central Asia.
Given that this patient is asymptomatic, no intervention is required at the present time.
These results are crucial to early identification and intervention of dyslexia in at-risk children.
Alcohol ignition interlocks have been proposed as a further intervention to reduce the prevalence of recidivist drink driving.
Finally, the intervention of allied troops was ineffectual and actually amateurish.

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