0 the action of becoming intentionally involved in a difficult situation, in order to improve it or prevent it from getting worse:
Half the people questioned said they were opposed to military intervention in the civil war.
Repeated interventions on the currency markets failed to prevent the currency's value falling.
A medical professional can advise family members of the most appropriate times to stage an alcohol intervention.
humorous He's been playing that video game all day. I think it's time for an intervention.
1 the act or fact of becoming involved intentionally in a difficult situation:
2 involvement in a difficult situation in order to improve it or prevent it from getting worse, or an occasion when this is done:
There is still some hope that the economic blockade will work and make military intervention unnecessary.
The government was reluctant to sanction intervention in the crisis.
The border dispute was used as a pretext for military intervention.
England have fallen so far behind in the championship that their only hope of victory is divine intervention.
Imposing sanctions is a moderate action when you consider that the alternative is military intervention.
His manager staged an intervention, forcing him into one of two rehab stays.
There was evidence that patients were exposed to the planned intervention.
Patients diagnosed with depression, or mixed anxiety and depression, for whom a brief psychological intervention was indicated.
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